Preoperative symptoms of depression, anxiety, and cognitive impairment in glioma patients: A cerebral perfusion CT study

Abstract

Purpose: Glioma patients have varying degrees of psychiatric symptoms, which severely affect the quality of life of patients and their families. The present study investigated the correlation between preoperative psychiatric symptoms and local cerebral perfusion parameters of in glioma patients. Patients and methods: The depression, anxiety, and cognitive impairment (CI) scores of 39 patients were assessed separately, and all of the patients underwent a preoperative perfusion computed tomography scan. Results: This study found that: (1) The incidence of preoperative symptoms of depression, anxiety, and CI was 46.15%, 48.72%, and 25.64%, respectively. (2) Cerebral blood volume (CBV) (lesion-sided [LS] occipital lobe white matter [WM] and parietal lobe WM and normal-sided temporal lobe WM), permeability surface (PS) (LS temporal lobe gray matter [GM] and parietal lobe WM) in the depression group were significantly decreased (p