Metabolic profiles by \(^{1}\)H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy in natalizumab-associated post-PML lesions of multiple sclerosis patients who survived progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML)
- \(\bf Purpose\) Early diagnosis and treatment of multiple sclerosis-related progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) significantly improve clinical outcomes. However, there is a lack of information regarding the restart of immunomodulatory therapy in the post-PML setting, when multiple sclerosis activity reappears. We aimed at the examination of metabolic differences using \(^{1}\)H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy (\(^{1}\)H-MRS) in multiple sclerosis patients at various post-PML stages and at the exploration of differences according to their disease and JC virus (JCV) status. \(\bf Methods\) \(^{1}\)H-MRS of PML lesions was carried out on 15 relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis patients with natalizumab-associated PML. Patients were grouped according to their stage after PML infection as early post-PML, less than 19 months after PML onset (\(\it n\) = 5), or late post-PML group, more than 23 months after PML onset (\(\it n\) = 10). The latter group was further categorized according to persisting JCV load in the cerebrospinal fluid. \(\bf Results\) Early post-PML patients showed significantly higher Lipid/Creatine ratios within PML lesions than late post-PML (\(\it p\) = 0.036). Furthermore, N-Acetyl-Aspartate/Creatine and N-Acetyl-Aspartate/Choline were significantly reduced in early post-PML and late post-PML lesions relative to normal-appearing white matter. In late post-PML, virus-positive patients showed significantly higher ratios of Choline/Creatine (\(\it p\) = 0.019) and consequently a reduced N-Acetyl-Aspartate/Choline ratio (\(\it p\) = 0.010) in contrast to virus-negative patients. In late post-PML patients with persisting viral load, an elevated Choline/Creatine ratio correlated significantly with higher disability. \(\bf Conclusions\) \(^{1}\)H-MRS may provide additional information related to underlying PML disease activity in various post-PML stages. In particular, Choline/Creatine levels, Lipid levels, and N-Acetyl-Aspartate/Choline are relevant markers in the post-PML setting, taking also the JCV status into account.
Author: | Ruth SchneiderORCiDGND, Barbara BellenbergORCiDGND, Robert HoepnerGND, Eva-Maria KolbGND, Gisa EllrichmannORCiDGND, Aiden HaghikiaGND, Ralf GoldORCiDGND, Carsten LukasORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-58929 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176415 |
Parent Title (English): | PLoS one |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2018/07/10 |
Date of first Publication: | 2017/04/26 |
Publishing Institution: | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek |
Tag: | Open Access Fonds |
Volume: | 12 |
Issue: | 4 |
First Page: | e0176415-1 |
Last Page: | e0176415-13 |
Note: | Article Processing Charge funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the Open Access Publication Fund of Ruhr-Universität Bochum. |
Note: | PLoS ONE, Bd. 12, H. 4, Artikelnummer e0176415 |
Institutes/Facilities: | St. Josef-Hospital Bochum, Neurologische Klinik |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / Medizin, Gesundheit |
open_access (DINI-Set): | open_access |
faculties: | Medizinische Fakultät |
Licence (English): | Creative Commons - CC BY 4.0 - Attribution 4.0 International |