Iodine-123 Ioflupane Scintigraphy for the Diagnosis of Lewy Body Disease Presenting as a Posterior Cortical Atrophy
Received Date: Apr 25, 2016 / Accepted Date: May 12, 2016 / Published Date: May 18, 2016
Abstract
We report the case of a 80-year old man who was admitted for loss of autonomy due to repeated falls and cognitive decline. The only symptom reported by the patient was difficulties with judging distances. Neurological examination revealed a transient extrapyramidal syndrome due to treatment with risperidone for visual hallucinations, but more importantly, a marked impairment of higher visual functions. Computerized tomography showed bilateral occipital lobe atrophy. Since Lewy body disease is a rare cause of Posterior Cortical Atrophy and given the visual hallucinations, we performed a 123-I-ioflupane brain scintigraphy which confirmed the diagnosis. To our knowledge, this is the first application of ioflupane-single photon emission computerized tomography in the diagnostic workup of a patient with Benson’s syndrome.
Keywords: Dementia; Posterior cortical atrophy; Lewy body disease; Iodine-123-ioflupane; Striatal imaging
Citation: Segers K, Benoit F, Duez M, Meyts JM, Hambye AS, et al. (2016) Iodine-123 Ioflupane Scintigraphy for the Diagnosis of Lewy Body Disease Presenting as a Posterior Cortical Atrophy. J Neuropsychopharmacol Mental Health 1: 110. Doi: 10.4172/2472-095X.1000110
Copyright: © 2016 Segers K, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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