Brain Blood Flow Abnormalities Persist in Gulf War Vets

[Emily]

http://www.doctorslounge.com/index.php/news/hd/23024

Brain Blood Flow Abnormalities Persist in Gulf War Vets
Last Updated: September 13, 2011.
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Similar abnormalities in hippocampal blood flow cropped up again 11 years later, according to the study.

The study is published online in the journal Radiology.

"We confirmed that abnormal blood flow continued or worsened over the 11-year span since first being diagnosed, which indicates that the damage is ongoing and lasts long term," said the study's principal investigator Dr. Robert W. Haley, chief of epidemiology in the departments of internal medicine and clinical sciences at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, in a Radiology Society of North American news release.....

See this thread about a treatable autoimmune condition found in some Gulf War Syndrome sufferers in the UK:
Pituitary hypophysitis: Hull hospital pioneers Gulf War Syndrome treatment for those diagnosed with a rare problem with their pituitary gland

 

[sharon sanders]

Re: Brain Blood Flow Abnormalities Persist in Gulf War Vets

Hippocampal Dysfunction in Gulf War Veterans: Investigation with ASL Perfusion MR Imaging and Physostigmine Challenge
Xiufeng Li, PhD, Jeffrey S. Spence, PhD, David M. Buhner, MD, MS, John Hart, Jr, MD, C. Munro Cullum, PhD, Melanie M. Biggs, PhD, Andrea L. Hester, PhD, Timothy N. Odegard, PhD, Patrick S. Carmack, PhD, Richard W. Briggs, PhD and Robert W. Haley, MD

Conclusion: Chronic hippocampal perfusion dysfunction persists or worsens in veterans with certain Gulf War syndromes. ASL MR imaging examination of hippocampal rCBF in a cholinergic challenge experiment may be useful as a diagnostic test for this condition.

http://radiology.rsna.org/content/261/1/218.abstract?sid=91ad3348-bff8-4cfc-a0ac-80737ca45840