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Agosta, Federica; Altomare, Daniele; Festari, Cristina; Orini, Stefania; Gandolfo, Federica; Boccardi, Marina; Arbizu, Javier; Bouwman, Femke; Drzezga, Alexander; Nestor, Peter; Nobili, Flavio; Walker, Zuzana; Pagani, Marco
EANM-EAN Task Force for the Prescription of FDG-PET for Dementing Neurodegenerative Disorders2018
EANM-EAN Task Force for the Prescription of FDG-PET for Dementing Neurodegenerative Disorders2018
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[en] To evaluate the incremental value of FDG-PET over clinical tests in: (i) diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); (ii) picking early signs of neurodegeneration in patients with a genetic risk of Huntington's disease (HD); and detecting metabolic changes related to cognitive impairment in (iii) ALS and (iv) HD patients. Four comprehensive literature searches were conducted using the PICO model to extract evidence from relevant studies. An expert panel then voted using the Delphi method on these four diagnostic scenarios. The availability of evidence was good for FDG-PET utility to support the diagnosis of ALS, poor for identifying presymptomatic subjects carrying HD mutation who will convert to HD, and lacking for identifying cognitive-related metabolic changes in both ALS and HD. After the Delphi consensual procedure, the panel did not support the clinical use of FDG-PET for any of the four scenarios. Relative to other neurodegenerative diseases, the clinical use of FDG-PET in ALS and HD is still in its infancy. Once validated by disease-control studies, FDG-PET might represent a potentially useful biomarker for ALS diagnosis. FDG-PET is presently not justified as a routine investigation to predict conversion to HD, nor to detect evidence of brain dysfunction justifying cognitive decline in ALS and HD. (orig.)
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Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00259-018-4033-0; Topical issue on brain imaging including the special section: Diagnostic utility of FDG-PET in dementia. Literature evidence and expert opinion
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European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging; ISSN 1619-7070;
; CODEN EJNMA6; v. 45(9); p. 1546-1556

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BEHAVIOR, BIOLOGICAL MARKERS, BRAIN, COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY, DECISION MAKING, DELPHI METHOD, DIAGNOSIS, FLUORINE 18, FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE, GENE MUTATIONS, GENETICS, MENTAL DISORDERS, METABOLISM, NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES, POSITRON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY, QUALITY ASSURANCE, QUALITY MANAGEMENT, RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS, UPTAKE
ANTIMETABOLITES, BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BETA-PLUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BIOLOGY, BODY, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM, COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY, DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, DISEASES, DRUGS, EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY, FLUORINE ISOTOPES, FORECASTING, HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES, ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES, ISOTOPES, LABELLED COMPOUNDS, LIGHT NUCLEI, MANAGEMENT, MATERIALS, MUTATIONS, NANOSECONDS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES, NERVOUS SYSTEM, NUCLEI, ODD-ODD NUCLEI, ORGANS, RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS, RADIOISOTOPES, TOMOGRAPHY
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