The RVCL-MRI study: neuroimaging findings and cerebrovascular reactivity in preclinical and clinical disease stages of Retinal Vasculopathy with Cerebral Leukodystrophy (RVCL), in migraine patients and healthy controls.
- Conditions
- Retinal Vasculopathy with Cerebral leukodystrophy & migraine100292991001923110047066
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON38389
- Lead Sponsor
- eids Universitair Medisch Centrum
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 90
Patient group (RVCL and migraine):
- age >=18 years
- Diagnosed with :
i) RVCL with proven TREX1 mutation; AND/OR
ii) migraine with or without aura according to the criteria of the International Headache Society (IHS)
- ability and willingness to provide written informed consent;control subjects:
-age >=18 years
- Not genetically related to an RVCL patient OR genetic testing has ruled out TREX1 mutations
- no (history) of migraine attacks
- age and sex matched with the patients
- Ability and willingness to provide written informed consent
All subjects:
- Subjects who do not want to be informed about unexpected findings that are considered serious, with prognostic or therapeutic consequences. This does not concern genetic test results.
- History of severe kidney dysfunction
- Previous allergic-like reaction to gadolinium-containing contrast agents
- Contraindications to MR Imaging (such as presence of metal objects in/on the body that cannot be removed);Migraine patients and control subjects:
- Presence of known (cerebro) vascular diseases such as overt manifestations of hypertensive/ atherosclerotic vascular disease, excessive anticoagulation (INR >3.0), CNS disorders, vasculitis, blood dyscrasia, diabetes mellitus, severe clinical relevant carotid artery stenosis. ;Specific exclusion criteria for participants in the cerebrovascular reactivity measurements:
- Severe asthma
- COPD
- Seizures within the previous year
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>1. The prevalence and distribution of disease specific structural and<br /><br>functional MRI abnormalities, including (i) brain (non-)lacunar infarcts, (ii)<br /><br>white matter hyperintensities (deep and periventricular), (iii) widened<br /><br>perivascular spaces, (iv) microbleeds, (v) cerebral *pseudotumor* mass lesions,<br /><br>(vi) permeability of the blood brain barrier, (vii) white matter connectivity,<br /><br>(viii) brain activity in rest.<br /><br><br /><br>2. Cerebrovascular reactivity after inducing hypercapnia as a measure of<br /><br>endothelial function</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>not applicable</p><br>