Reduced oxygen extraction efficiency in sickle cell anemia patients with evidence of cerebral capillary shunting
- 1 March 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
- Vol. 41 (3), 546-560
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0271678X20913123
Abstract
Arterial spin labeling (ASL) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) utilizes arterial blood water as an endogenous contrast agent to provide a quantitative measure of cerebral blood flow (CBF). Recently, hyperintense signal within dural venous sinuses in ASL images of sickle cell anemia (SCA) patients has been shown to be consistent with elevated flow velocities and may indicate capillary shunting and reduced oxygen extraction. Here, we performed oxygen extraction fraction (OEF) and CBF measurements in adults (cumulative n = 114) with (n = 69) and without (n = 45) SCA to test the hypothesis that hyperintense venous ASL signal is associated with reduced OEF. Higher categorical scores of shunting on ASL MRI were associated with lower OEF in participants with silent cerebral infarcts or white matter hyperintensities (p = 0.003), but not in those without lesions (p = 0.551). These findings indicate that venous hyperintense signal in ASL images in SCA patients may represent a marker of capillary-level disturbances in oxygen exchange efficiency and small vessel pathology.This publication has 47 references indexed in Scilit:
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