步态
多发性硬化
物理医学与康复
医学
神经科学
心理学
精神科
作者
L. Eduardo Cofré Lizama,Myrte Strik,Anneke van der Walt,Trevor J. Kilpatrick,Scott Kolbe,Mary P. Galea
标识
DOI:10.1177/13524585221094464
摘要
Gait in people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) is affected even when no changes can be observed on clinical examination. A sensitive measure of gait deterioration is stability; however, its correlation with motor tract damage has not yet been established.To compare stability between PwMS and healthy controls (HCs) and determine associations between stability and diffusion magnetic resonance image (MRI) measures of axonal damage in selected sensorimotor tracts.Twenty-five PwMS (Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) < 2.5) and 15 HCs walked on a treadmill. Stability from sacrum (LDESAC), shoulder (LDESHO) and cervical (LDECER) was calculated using the local divergence exponent (LDE). Participants underwent a 7T-MRI brain scan to obtain fibre-specific measures of axonal loss within the corticospinal tract (CST), interhemispheric sensorimotor tract (IHST) and cerebellothalamic tract (CTT). Correlation analyses between LDE and fibre density (FD) within tracts, fibre cross-section (FC) and FD modulated by FC (FDC) were conducted. Between-groups LDE differences were analysed using analysis of variance (ANOVA).Correlations between all stability measures with CSTFD, between CSTFDC with LDESAC and LDECER, and LDECER with IHSTFD and IHSTFDC were significant yet moderate (R < -0.4). Stability was significantly different between groups.Poorer gait stability is associated with corticospinal tract (CST) axonal loss in PwMS with no-to-low disability and is a sensitive indicator of neurodegeneration.
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