Journal
EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY
Volume 27, Issue 6, Pages 2640-2648Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-016-4611-0
Keywords
Parkinson's disease/Parkinsonism; Essential tremor; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI); Sensitivity and specificity
Funding
- FAPESP (Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo) [2011/18747]
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Objectives Our goal was to estimate the diagnostic accuracy of substantia nigra fractional anisotropy (SN-FA) for Parkinson's disease (PD) diagnosis in a sample similar to the clinical setting, including patients with essential tremor (ET) and healthy controls (HC). We also performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate mean change in SN-FA induced by PD and its diagnostic accuracy. Methods Our sample consisted of 135 subjects: 72 PD, 21 ET and 42 HC. To address inter-scanner variability, two 3.0-T MRI scans were performed. MRI results of this sample were pooled into a meta-analysis that included 1,432 subjects (806 PD and 626 HC). A bivariate model was used to evaluate diagnostic accuracy measures. Results In our sample, we did not observe a significant effect of disease on SN-FA and it was uninformative for diagnosis. The results of the meta-analysis estimated a 0.03 decrease in mean SN-FA in PD relative to HC (CI: 0.01-0.05). However, the discriminatory capability of SN-FA to diagnose PD was low: pooled sensitivity and specificity were 72 % (CI: 68-75) and 63 % (CI: 58-70), respectively. There was high heterogeneity between studies (I-2 = 91.9%). Conclusions SN-FAcannot be used as an isolatedmeasure to diagnose PD.
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