Abstract
AbstractBackgroundIt is widely known that there is low striatal 123I‐FP‐CIT dopamine transporter single photon emission tomography (DaT‐SPECT) uptake in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). There are no study about the association between longitudinal changes of clinical sign and DaT‐uptake in Parkinson syndrome, especially in DLB. The aim of this study is to investigate the association between the longitudinal changes of DaT uptake and severity of parkinsonism and cognitive funtion in DLB.MethodA total of 35 outpatients with probable DLB who underwent DaT‐SPECT twice (initial and follow up period) from the Memory Disorder Clinic at the Department of Geriatric Medicine, Tokyo Medical University, were enrolled in this study from April 2014 until September 2020. We examined the correlation between annual changes of DaT uptake and symptoms (cognitive function decline, parkinsonism) in the patients with DLB.ResultThere was significant correlation between annual changes of severity of parkinsonism and DAT uptake in left posterior putamen (r = ‐0.39, p = 0.03), MMSE scores and DaT uptake in the entire regions except right posterior putamen (P< 0.05) in patients with DLB.ConclusionThese results may suggest clarifying the mechanism of dysfunction of nigrostriatal projection pathway in DLB.
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