■Creutzfeldt-Jakob病是一种神经退行性疾病,由大脑中积累的一种错误折叠形式的细胞朊病毒蛋白引起,其诊断具有挑战性,特别是在早期阶段,由于临床和放射学特征的变异性和非特异性。18F-氟代脱氧葡萄糖正电子发射断层扫描有可能被认为是这些患者的关键调查,比常规神经影像学分析更早地揭示代谢异常。
■一个59岁的男人,军官,被转诊到我们的单位,因为神经症状在一个月内迅速发展,以运动障碍默症为特征,结构性失用症,和空间取向紊乱。大脑18F-氟代脱氧葡萄糖(18F-FDG)正电子发射断层扫描(PET)/CT描绘了左额颞顶叶皮质的不对称代谢减退,以及左丘脑和右小脑半球,而葡萄糖代谢似乎保留在体感皮层和基底神经节中。实验室常规分析,脑脊液常规,感染性测试,脑电图(EEG),脑磁共振(MR)均无异常。随后显示脑脊液(CSF)的RT-QuIC阳性结果,没有任何致病基因突变,因此,结果与散发性Creutzfeld-Jacob病的诊断一致.临床进展迅速不利,患者在入院约4个月后死亡。FDGPET/计算机断层扫描(CT)有可能被认为是这些患者的关键调查,在其他诊断研究(如CSF)之前很长时间记录代谢变化,脑电图,脑部CT,和大脑MR,因此表明,在所讨论的疾病的早期阶段,葡萄糖代谢评估的敏感性更高。
UNASSIGNED: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by brain accumulation of a misfolded form of the cellular prion protein, whose diagnosis is challenging, particularly in early stages, due to the variability and nonspecificity of the clinical and radiological features. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emitted tomography has the potential to be considered a crucial investigation in these patients, revealing metabolic abnormalities earlier than the conventional neuroimaging analysis.
UNASSIGNED: A 59-year-old man, the military officer, was referred to our Units for the onset of neurological symptoms rapidly evolving within a month, characterized by akinetic mutism, constructional apraxia, and disorders of spatial orientation. Brain 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) positron-emitted tomography (PET)/CT depicted an asymmetric hypometabolism in the left fronto-temporo-parietal cortex, as well as in the left thalamus and the right cerebellar hemisphere, while the glucose metabolism appears to be preserved in the somatosensory cortex and the basal ganglia. Laboratory routine analyses, cerebrospinal fluid routine, infective tests, electroencephalography (EEG), and brain magnetic resonance (MR) were all unremarkable. A positive RT-QuIC result on cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF) was subsequently shown, without any pathogenic gene mutations and, therefore, the result was consistent with a diagnosis of sporadic Creutzfeld-Jacob disease. The clinical evolution was quickly unfavorable, and the patient died about 4 months after hospital admission. FDG PET/computed tomography (CT) has the potential to be considered a crucial investigation in these patients, documenting metabolic changes long time before other diagnostic investigations such as CSF, EEG, brain CT, and brain MR, thus suggesting a greater sensitivity of glucose metabolic evaluation in the early stage of the disease in question.