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Abstract
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) are the 2 most common causes of dementia. We compared the regional metabolism on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET) among 21 control subjects and cognitively impaired patients due to DLB (N = 63) and AD (N = 38). All participants underwent 18F-Florbetaben (FBB) PET, and all DLB patients had abnormality on dopamine transporter PET. Both the FBB-positive DLB (N = 38) and FBB-negative DLB (N = 25) groups had increased metabolism in the bilateral central cerebellum, posterior putamen, and somatomotor cortices compared with the control and AD groups. Compared with the control group, the DLB and AD groups commonly exhibited hypometabolism in the bilateral lateral temporal, temporo-parietal junction, posterior cingulate, and precuneus cortices. Both DLB groups had additional hypometabolism in the bilateral thalami and dorsolateral prefrontal cortices, whereas the AD group did in the bilateral entorhinal cortices and hippocampi. Our results suggest that hypermetabolism in the somatomotor cortex, posterior putamen, or central cerebellum could be a useful imaging biomarker for detecting DLB patients, while entorhinal/hippocampal hypometabolism could be a specific biomarker for AD.

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Ye BS1, Lee S2, Yoo H1, Chung SJ1, Lee YH1, Choi Y2, Lee PH1, Sohn YH1, Yun M3.
1
Department of Neurology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
2
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
3
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea. Electronic address: YUNMIJIN@yuhs.ac.