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Cyclotron Research Centre, Department of Neurology and Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Liege, Belgium
Correspondence: For correspondence or reprints contact: Dr. E. Salmon, Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liege, B30 Sart Tilman, 4000 Liege, Belgium.
ABSTRACT
PET 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 demertia had isolated bilateral frontal hypometabolism. Conclusions: This alternative metabolic pattern may correspond to a non Alzheimer 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.
Key Words: dementia • Alzheimer's disease • positron emission tomography
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