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@ARTICLE{Kocher:902215,
author = {Kocher, Martin and Jockwitz, Christiane and Lerche,
Christoph and Sabel, Michael and Lohmann, Philipp and
Stoffels, Gabriele and Filss, Christian and Mottaghy, Felix
M. and Ruge, Maximilian I. and Fink, Gereon R. and Shah,
Nadim J. and Galldiks, Norbert and Caspers, Svenja and
Langen, Karl-Josef},
title = {{C}ase {R}eport: {D}isruption of {R}esting-{S}tate
{N}etworks and {C}ognitive {D}eficits {A}fter {W}hole
{B}rain {I}rradiation for {S}ingular {B}rain {M}etastasis},
journal = {Frontiers in neuroscience},
volume = {15},
issn = {1662-453X},
address = {Lausanne},
publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-04103},
pages = {738708},
year = {2021},
abstract = {Introduction: Long-term survivors of whole brain radiation
(WBRT) are at significant risk for developing cognitive
deficits, but knowledge about the underlying
pathophysiological mechanisms is limited. Therefore, we here
report a rare case with a singular brain metastasis treated
by resection and WBRT that survived for more than 10 years
where we investigated the integrity of brain networks using
resting-state functional MRI.Methods: A female patient with
a left frontal non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) brain
metastasis had resection and postoperative WBRT (30.0 in 3.0
Gy fractions) and stayed free from brain metastasis
recurrence for a follow-up period of 11 years. Structural
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and amino acid
[O-(2-[18F]fluoroethyl)-L-tyrosine] positron emission
tomography (FET PET) were repeatedly acquired. At the last
follow up, neurocognitive functions and resting-state
functional connectivity (RSFC) using resting-state fMRI were
assessed. Within-network and inter-network connectivity of
seven resting-state networks were computed from a
connectivity matrix. All measures were compared to a matched
group of 10 female healthy subjects.Results: At the 11-year
follow-up, T2/FLAIR MR images of the patient showed extended
regions of hyper-intensities covering mainly the white mater
of the bilateral dorsal frontal and parietal lobes while
sparing most of the temporal lobes. Compared to the healthy
subjects, the patient performed significantly worse in all
cognitive domains that included executive functions,
attention and processing speed, while verbal working memory,
verbal episodic memory, and visual working memory were left
mostly unaffected. The connectivity matrix showed a heavily
disturbed pattern with a widely distributed, scattered loss
of RSFC. The within-network RSFC revealed a significant loss
of connectivity within all seven networks where the dorsal
attention and fronto-parietal control networks were affected
most severely. The inter-network RSFC was significantly
reduced for the visual, somato-motor, and dorsal and ventral
attention networks.Conclusion: As demonstrated here in a
patient with a metastatic NSCLC and long-term survival, WBRT
may lead to extended white matter damage and cause severe
disruption of the RSFC in multiple resting state networks.
In consequence, executive functioning which is assumed to
depend on the interaction of several networks may be
severely impaired following WBRT apart from the
well-recognized deficits in memory function.},
cin = {INM-4 / INM-11 / JARA-BRAIN / INM-1 / INM-3},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-4-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)INM-11-20170113 /
I:(DE-Juel1)VDB1046 / I:(DE-Juel1)INM-1-20090406 /
I:(DE-Juel1)INM-3-20090406},
pnm = {5253 - Neuroimaging (POF4-525)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5253},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {34776847},
UT = {WOS:000717637300001},
doi = {10.3389/fnins.2021.738708},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/902215},
}