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Determining Clinical Disease Progression in Symptomatic Patients With CADASIL
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Edité par CCSD ; American Academy of Neurology -
International audience.
Background and Objectives: Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is the most frequent small artery brain disease caused by pathogenic variants of the NOTCH3 gene. During the disease, we still do not know how the various deficits progress and develop with each other at different stages of the disease. We aim to model disease progression, identify possible progressive subgroups and the effects of different covariates on clinical worsening. Methods: Data were from patients followed in the French CADASIL referral center, who were aged 25-80 years and had completed at least two visits and one of 14 clinical scores. Progression and variability were assessed using a Disease course model (Leaspy). A Gaussian mixture model was used to identify different progression subgroups. Logistic regressions were used to compare the characteristics between groups. Results: In 395 patients along 2007 visits, the follow-up ranged from 6 months to 19 years, with a mean of 7.5 years. They were 45% men with a mean age of 52.2 years. The evolution curves of the different scores showed that clinical manifestations develop heterogeneously and can vary considerably depending on the disease stage. We identified an early-onset, rapidly progressing subgroup of patients with earlier motor symptoms and focal neurological deficits, (median time-shift: 59 (Q1-Q3: 48.9-66.3), median acceleration rate: 0.84 (0.07-1.31), and a late-onset slowly progressing group, with earlier cognitive symptoms, (median time-shift: 69.2 (63.4-75.1), median acceleration rate: -0.18 (-0.48-0.14). Male gender, a lower education level, hypertension, and the NOTCH3 pathogenic variant location within EGFr 1-6 were found associated with this group difference. Discussion: Our results suggest a gradual and heterogeneous decline in different clinical and cognitive performances over the lifetime of CADASIL patients. Two progression profiles, one rapid and early and the other, more delayed and slower, are possible after the onset of symptoms. Although a major limitation of our study is that the clusters were assessed post-hoc which may induce some bias. Overall, male gender, a low level of education, the pathogenic variant location in EGFr 1 to 6 domains, smoking and/or arterial hypertension may affect the clinical progression of the disease.