Estudo comparativo do fluxo sanguineo cerebral regional (SPECT) entre pacientes esquizofrenicos e controle normais

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1998

RESUMO

The schizophrenia is a serious psychotic disturbance. It attacks preferably the young adults, causing injuries that extends to the individual s all life. It is of multifactorial etiology with genetics, environrnental and neurobiological aspects implied in its genesis. The neuroimaging studies have showed changes in the metabolism and in the regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF). The aim ofthis study is to fmd out the alterations ofrCBF in schizophrenics as compared to normal control, the affected regions and the correlations with the symptoms (positive and negative). Method: study of the type case-control, where it was done SPECT cerebral with 99mtc-HMPAO as the tracer, in resting conditions in 30 schizophrenics and a group of 17 normal control subjects. The diagnosis was done according to the criteria of DSMIII-R to schizophrenia. It was applied the PANSS for evaluation and mensuration ofthe positive and negative symptoms. The patients used typical neuroleptics (n = 13) and risperidone (n = 14). The SPECTwas interpreted qualitativelybythe team ofnuclear doctors ofUNICAMP. Itwas used the method ROI/cerebellum quantitatively. The multivaried analysis. (ANOVA) was prepared in the planning with repeated measures with crossed factorial model, considering the group classification and the sex, and the discriminating analysis. Results: In the schizophrenics, in relation to controls, it was observed the reduction ofrCBF in the frontallobe, in the basal ganglions and in the visual area bilateraly. In the patients with negative syndrome (typ.e II of CROW), it was presented reduction of rCBF in the frontallobe bilareraly (more significantly in the left hemysphere), in the left temporal and parietallobes; patients with positive syndrome (type I ofGROW) and mixed presented reduction and increase ofrCBF in different cerebral areas; this increase was detected only qualitatively. Patients of clynical subtype disorganized and catatonic presented reduction of rCBF frontal bilaterally and left parietal. Patients using risperidone displayed bigger rCBF than those who used typical neuroleptics, in the left temporallobe in the cingulate gyrus and in the right parietallobe. Conclusions: The schizophrenics patients presented hipoperfusioll in the frontallobe and ganglions ofthe base, suggestingphysiological control alld subcortical alteration. The ones with negative symptoms showed frontal, temporal and parietalleft hipoperfusion. The disfunction of these areas can justify the negative syndrome that is specially related to the functions offrontallobe, as the social removal and the temporallobe as the alogia. Patients with positive and mixed symptoms revealed a pattern of variable cerebral perfusion with areas of reduction and increase of rCBF. showing a physiological alteration in several syst~ms and cerebral regions that may be hiperfunctioning (concerning the positive symptoms) and hipofunctioning (concerning the negative symptoms). The neuroleptcs can act in different cerebral regions, that canjustify the diversity ofboth, side-effects and therapeutical effects

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saude mental esquizofrenia neuropsiquiatria fluxo sanguineo esquizofrenia - historia

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