FDG‐PET and Amyloid PET scans: benefits beyond Alzheimer´s Disease. It´s really useful in daily practice? Clinical case review
Shenda Orrego, Mihaela Sava, Maria Pilar Garcia, María Sagrario Manzano · 2025
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Shenda Orrego and co-authors review a 2025 set of clinic cases from a hospital in Madrid, Spain. Their topic is what two kinds of brain scan add to care for memory and conduct complaints. One scan checks for amyloid, a protein linked to Alzheimer's disease. The other shows how the brain uses sugar. The team looked back at fifty-one patients seen over close to five years.
About two in five amyloid scans came back positive for the protein. Among patients with a negative scan, only about one in four got a firm diagnosis from other means. The sugar scan showed weak use in close to three in four patients, yet many of those patterns were not clear. Mood problems were common and did not predict scan results. The review shows that even strong scans often leave hard cases open.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Shenda Orrego, Mihaela Sava, Maria Pilar Garcia, María Sagrario Manzano |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |