title: [Phase 2 clinical study of 123I-iomazenil in various cerebral diseases: part 2--clinical evaluation of central-type benzodiazepine receptor imaging with 123I-iomazenil SPECT].
abstract: A phase 2 clinical study of 123I-iomazenil (IMZ) was performed to evaluate its clinical usefulness as central-type benzodiazepine receptor imaging agent in 81 cases with epilepsy, 82 cases with cerebrovascular diseases (CVD), 35 cases with degenerative disorders and 14 cases with mental disorders. In epilepsy, IMZ SPECT images for detection of epileptic foci showed relatively high specificity compared with EEG recording in not only interictal but also ictal state, in spite of the fact that IMZ SPECT images was performed during interictally. It was surmised that IMZ SPECT provides valuable clinical information for detection of epileptic foci which are hard to be diagnosed by EEG. The frequency of abnormal findings by IMZ late images was higher than that by interictal blood flow images and comparable to that by ictal blood flow images. In patients with CVD, different observations were obtained between IMZ late images and blood flow images; for example, in regions of hemodynamic cerebral ischemia, postischemic reperfusion and other pathological perfusion, IMZ late images seemed to reflect the degree of cortical neuronal loss. In patients with degenerative disorders, the binding potential (calculated by a simple quantitative method for IMZ) and other parameters correlated with the dementia score. While the number of examined cases with mental disorders was limited, the frequency of abnormal findings with IMZ imaging was higher than that with morphological imaging.
authors.affiliation: Fukui Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Torizuka
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Uemura
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Thoru
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yonekura
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nakagawara
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fukuyama
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Matsuda
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Morimoto
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D005442:Flumazenil / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*; D006801:Humans; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D011963:Receptors, GABA-A / Q000378:metabolism; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
chemical_list: D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D011963:Receptors, GABA-A; D005442:Flumazenil; C063038:iomazenil