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Durval C Costa, MD, MSc, PhD, FRCR

Champalimaud Foundation
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[HTML][HTML] PET e SPECT em neurologia e psiquiatria: do básico às aplicações clínicas

DC Costa, JMAP Oliveira, RA Bressan - Brazilian Journal of …, 2001 - SciELO Brasil
Cerca de cem anos depois da descoberta original dos raios-X por Roentgen, a medicina
por imagem não tem parado de se desenvolver em várias frentes, que têm forçosamente de …

Dementia with Lewy bodies: a comparison of clinical diagnosis, FP-CIT single photon emission computed tomography imaging and autopsy

…, E Jaros, RWH Walker, L Lee, DC Costa… - Journal of Neurology …, 2007 - jnnp.bmj.com
Background: Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a common form of dementia. The presence
of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology modifies the clinical features of DLB, making it …

A comparison of three radionuclide myocardial perfusion tracers in clinical practice: the ROBUST study

…, C Anagnostopoulos, J Bomanji, DC Costa… - European journal of …, 2002 - Springer
There are no large studies available to guide the selection of thallium (Tl), methoxyisobutylisonitrile
(MIBI) or tetrofosmin (Tf) for myocardial perfusion imaging. Our objective was to …

Pathophysiology of chronic left ventricular dysfunction: new insights from the measurement of absolute myocardial blood flow and glucose utilization

NVS Marinho, BE Keogh, DC Costa, AA Lammerstma… - Circulation, 1996 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Chronically dysfunctional myocardium may improve after coronary revascularization.
This condition was thought to be due to a chronically reduced myocardial blood flow (…

Brain blood flow in anxiety disorders: OCD, panic disorder with agoraphobia, and post-traumatic stress disorder on 99m TcHMPAO single photon emission …

JV Lucey, DC Costa, G Adshead, MP Deahl… - The British Journal of …, 1997 - cambridge.org
BackgroundWe compared regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in three groups of patients with
DSM–III–R anxiety disorders.MethodFifteen patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder (…

Limbic selectivity of clozapine

LS Pilowsky, RS Mulligan, PD Acton, PJ Ell, DC Costa… - The Lancet, 1997 - thelancet.com
That previously infertile men may now reproduce through intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
has raised concern that genetic causes of male infertility may be transmitted to the ICSI-…

Regional cerebral blood flow in obsessive-compulsive disordered patients at rest: differential correlates with obsessive–compulsive and anxious–avoidant dimensions

JV Lucey, DC Costa, T Blanes, GF Busatto… - The British Journal of …, 1995 - cambridge.org
Background We tested whether cortical and subcortical regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF)
differs between patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and healthy controls. We …

Differentiation of frontotemporal dementia from dementia with Lewy bodies using FP-CIT SPECT

…, DC Costa, S Padayachee, L Lee, C Barber… - Journal of Neurology …, 2012 - jnnp.bmj.com
Introduction There is increasing evidence that imaging with [ 123 I]FP-CIT SPECT is helpful
in differentiating dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) from Alzheimer's disease (AD) but it is not …

Typical antipsychotic drugs—D2 receptor occupancy and depressive symptoms in schizophrenia

RA Bressan, DC Costa, HM Jones, PJ Ell… - Schizophrenia …, 2002 - Elsevier
We tested the hypothesis that the degree of striatal dopamine D 2 receptor blockade induced
by typical antipsychotic treatment directly correlates with the presence and severity of …

Psychiatric profiles and patterns of cerebral blood flow in focal epilepsy: interactions between depression, obsessionality, and perfusion related to the laterality of the …

EB Schmitz, J Moriarty, DC Costa, HA Ring… - Journal of Neurology …, 1997 - jnnp.bmj.com
OBJECTIVES: In a study of patients with focal epilepsy the hypothesis was explored that
different measurements of psychopathology are related to specific distributions of cerebral …