Molecular Imaging With Pittsburgh Compound B Confirmed at Autopsy
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- 1 March 2007
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology
- Vol. 64 (3), 431-434
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneur.64.3.431
Abstract
Objective To determine the correspondence between uptake of Pittsburgh Compound B (PiB) in life and measures of β-amyloid (Aβ) in postmortem tissue analysis. Patient A 76-year-old man with a clinical diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies underwent fluorodeoxyglucose18F and PiB positron emission tomographic brain scans. Imaging revealed marked region specific binding of PiB and abnormal fluorodeoxyglucose uptake. Intervention Autopsy was performed 3 months after the PiB scan. Results Autopsy confirmed the clinical diagnosis; in addition, there was severe cerebral amyloid angiopathy and only moderate numbers of parenchymal Aβ plaques. Biochemical measures revealed a positive correlation between Aβ levels and regional PiB binding. Conclusion This report confirms that PiB detects Aβ in the living patient and demonstrates that amyloid deposited as cerebral amyloid angiopathy can be the dominant source of signal.Keywords
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