Differential Diagnosis of Alzheimers Disease with Pet
E. Salmon
Bok Engelsk 1994
| Utgitt | E Salmon Univ Liege Dept Neurol Cyclotron Re , 1994
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| Opplysninger | zPET studies have demonstrated bilateral temporo-parietal hypoperfusion and hypometabolism in probable and definite Alzheimer's disease (AD), a pattern that may help differentiate AD from other dementias. Methods: To evaluate the diagnostic power of cerebral metabolic distribution patterns for ''cortical'' degenerative dementias, PET scans obtained from 129 patients referred for differential diagnosis of dementia were analyzed visually. Results: Sixty-five patients had a final clinical diagnosis of probable AD, Ninety-seven percent (97%) of those had abnormal metabolic scans and 94% showed a suggestive pattern of bilateral or unilateral temporo-parietal hypometabolism (with or without frontal involvement). Hypometabolism was unilateral in 23% of patients. Five subjects with a neuropathologically proven diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease had a suggestive metabolic pattern. One of those was an early case with frontal hypometabolism exceeding temporo-parietal involvement. Two patients with Alzheimer's-type dementia had isolated bilateral frontal hypometabolism. Conclusions: This alternative metabolic pattern may correspond to a nonAlzheimer pathology occurring in 10%-20% of patients suffering from clinically probable Alzheimer's disease. Most of the patients with possible but atypical Alzheimer's-type dementia showed isolated bilateral frontal involvement. This metabolic pattern probably corresponds to different diseases, such as Pick's disease, frontal lobe dementia or progressive subcortical gliosis.
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