Characteristic analysis of white matter lesions in migraine patients with MRI

F. Hu, Z.-W. Qian

College of Health Information Technology and Management, Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shanghai, China. Joyking2003@163.com

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• Neurology

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to analyze the characteristics of white matter lesions in abnormal manifestations of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of patients with migraine, and its relationship with migraine.

PATIENTS AND METHODS: 38 patients, diagnosed with migraine were continuously selected as the observation group, while during the same period, 30 healthy individuals were selected as the control group. The differences of the features of MRI of two groups, the ratios of white matter lesions manifestations and the severity were compared.

RESULTS: The manifestations of MRI in patients with migraine were mainly white matter lesions. The accuracy rate was 86.7%, and the sensibility was 92.3%. According to Wahlund white matter lesions classifications, patients with migraine were mainly Level II and Level III (84.2%). It can be acquired from relevant analyses that white matter lesions classifications and the degrees of migraine were positively correlated (p < 0.05). White matter lesions were mainly distributed in the frontal lobe (78.9%), limbic system (60.5%) and parietal lobe (28.9%).

CONCLUSIONS: The MRI of migraine, the manifestations of white matter lesions were relatively sensitive. The higher the classification was linked with the degree of migraine. They were mainly distributed in the frontal lobe, limbic system and parietal lobe.

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