A comparative metabolic pet study for assessing abnormal metabolic network activity in dementia with lewy bodies and parkinsons disease

Conclusions: This is the first study to investigate the specific metabolic brain networks corresponding to DLB using FDG PET imaging. We demonstrated that DLB patients presented a similar topography in cerebral metabolic abnormalities with PD patients, but with wider range as well as higher quantitative expression. These results indicate that PD/DLB maybe under the spectrum of the same disease, while the latter is likely to be associated with greater lesions underlying neuropathological substrates.

Source: Journal of Nuclear Medicine - May 14, 2020 Category: Nuclear Medicine Authors: Shi, Q., Ge, J., Li, L., Lu, J., Zhu, Y., Zuo, C., Wu, P. Tags: Neurology & amp; Psychiatry (Poster Session) Source Type: research