title: Dementia with Lewy bodies versus Alzheimer's disease: role of dopamine transporter imaging.
abstract: Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are the common forms of dementia at post-mortem, but distinguishing between these two types of dementia is often very difficult during life. Ioflupane significantly improves the differentiation during life between DLB and AD patients. However, there is a trend for lower caudate uptake in DLB than PD and lower posterior/caudal putamen uptake in PD than in DLB. Further research is needed to test the hypothesis that dopaminergic degeneration may be different, at least regarding anatomical distribution, in DLB and PD. Furthermore, it is important to consider and discuss the potential for ioflupane in the diagnostic workup of patients with DLB.
authors.affiliation: University College, London, United Kingdom. dcosta@ibili.uc.pt
authors.forename: Durval C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.forename: Zuzana
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Walker
authors.forename: Rodney W H
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Walker
authors.forename: Flávia R G
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Fontes
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002421:Caudate Nucleus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D050483:Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins; D006801:Humans; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D020961:Lewy Body Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins / Q000032:analysis*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D019636:Neurodegenerative Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011699:Putamen / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014326:Tropanes
chemical_list: D050483:Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D014326:Tropanes; C087552:2-carbomethoxy-8-(3-fluoropropyl)-3-(4-iodophenyl)tropane