Journal
BRAIN SCIENCES
Volume 12, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12081115
Keywords
complex regional pain syndrome; gray matter volume; voxel-based morphometry; magnetic resonance imaging; meta-analysis
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81771815]
- Military Medical Enhancement Program of the Air Force Medical University [2018HKPY03, 2018JSTS13]
- Basal Application Research Project of Medical Technology Youth Incubation Programme [21QNPY075]
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Current findings on brain structural alterations in complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) are heterogeneous and controversial. This systematic review and meta-analysis found that patients with CRPS have increased gray matter volume (GMV) in certain brain regions, such as the left medial superior frontal gyrus and striatum, and decreased GMV in other regions, such as the corpus callosum and supplementary motor area. Furthermore, disease duration and sex differences may negatively affect the increased GMV in the medial superior frontal gyrus.
Current findings on brain structural alterations in complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) are heterogenous and controversial. This study aimed to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis to explore the significant gray matter volume (GMV) abnormalities between patients with CRPS and healthy controls (HCs). A systematic search of the PubMed, Web of Science, and MEDLINE databases was performed, updated through 27 January 2022. A total of five studies (93 CRPS patients and 106 HCs) were included. Peak coordinates and effect sizes were extracted and meta-analyzed by anisotropic effect size-signed differential mapping (AES-SDM). Heterogeneity, sensitivity, and publication bias of the main results were checked by the Q test, jackknife analysis, and the Egger test, respectively. Meta-regression analysis was performed to explore the potential impact of risk factors on GMV alterations in patients with CRPS. The main analysis exhibited that patients with CRPS had increased GMV in the left medial superior frontal gyrus (SFGmedial.L), left striatum, and an undefined area (2, 0, -8) that may be in hypothalamus, as well as decreased GMV in the corpus callosum (CC) (extending to right supplementary motor area (SMA.R), right median cingulate/paracingulate gyri (MCC.R)), and an undefined area (extending to the right caudate nucleus (CAU.R), and right thalamus (THA.R)). Meta-regression analysis showed a negative relationship between increased GMV in the SFGmedial.L and disease duration, and the percentage of female patients with CRPS. Brain structure abnormalities in the sensorimotor regions (e.g., SFGmedial.L, SMA.R, CAU.R, MCC.R, and THA.R) may be susceptible in patients with CRPS. Additionally, sex differences and disease duration may have a negative effect on the increased GMV in SFGmedial.L.
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