Brain perfusion SPECT in patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease:: comparison of a semiquantitative and a visual evaluation

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作者
Staffen, W
Schönauer, U
Zauner, H
Spindler, I
Mair, A
Iglseder, B
Bernroider, G
Ladurner, G
机构
[1] Paracelsus Univ, Dept Neurol, Christian Doppler Klin, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria
[2] Salzburg Univ, Inst Zool, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria
关键词
mild cognitive impairment; dementia of Alzheimer's type; SPECT;
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10.1007/s00702-005-0321-5
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R74 [神经病学与精神病学];
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Due to the increasing importance of early recognition and differential diagnosis of dementias, cerebral perfusion scans using "single photon emission computed tomography" (SPECT) are increasingly integrated into the examination routine. The goal of this study was to check the diagnostic validity of SPECT scans of MCI- and DAT-patients, two subgroups out of 369 persons with etiologically unclear cognitive dysfunction, which underwent an assessment program for probable dementia including cognitive testing, cranial computed tomography, ultrasound, routine laboratory testing including vascular risk factors. After exclusion of patients with no or other forms of dementia we analyzed SPECT data of patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI; n = 85) and dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT; n = 78) in comparison with a healthy control group (n = 34). Visual assessment as well as a manual "regions of interest" (ROI) regionalization of the cortex were performed, whereby a ROI/cerebellum ratio was calculated as a semi-quantitative value. Association cortex areas were assessed regarding frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes of both hemispheres. When comparing the ratios of patients with DAT and controls, we found a statistically significant reduction of the cerebral perfusion in all measured cortex areas (p < 0.001). The comparison of patients with MCI with the selected control group also established a statistically significant difference in the cerebral perfusion for the evaluated cortex areas with the exception of the left hemispheric frontal and parietal cortex. A considerable number of the MCI patients showed an MMSE-score within the normal range, but with regard to the perfusion in the right hemispheric association cortex these patients also could be distinguished unambiguously from controls. Sensitivity levels found by visual assessment were at least as high as those found by the ROI method (pathological assessment: visual 49.4% vs. ROI 47.1% for MCI; visual 75.6% vs. ROI 73.1% for DAT). High experienced visual assessment of cerebral perfusion scans using SPECT provides an useful additional tool in diagnosis of cognitive impairment. The used semiquantitative ROI-method is nearly equivalent and does not depend on the experience of the investigator.
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