Article Disease PET Scan 
AuntMinnie
MARCH 4, 2025
F-18 fluoroestradiol (FES) PET may improve staging of grade 1 or 2 estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer compared with F-18 FDG-PET, according to an article published March 4 in Radiology. Nuclear medicine physicians analyzed both sets of images and determined disease stages, with final stages verified via biopsy. (B)
AuntMinnie
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Alzheimer’s disease patients with cognitive impairment or dementia who were referred for amyloid PET scans had fewer hospitalizations compared with a matched control group, according to a study published October 9 in JAMA Neurology. Each participant was matched to a control Medicare beneficiary who had not undergone amyloid PET.
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AuntMinnie
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
National Institutes of Health (NIH) has highlighted a study that shows cardiac PET scans can help identify people at risk for Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia. Significantly, the research supports a “body first” progression model for the diseases, the researchers suggested. “We
AuntMinnie
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
PET imaging using a newly developed radiotracer has identified different patterns of brain tau pathology over time in early-onset versus late-onset Alzheimer’s disease patients, according to a study published February 1 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. in 15 patients with negative amyloid PET scans; 1.18 in
AuntMinnie
APRIL 29, 2024
PET brain scans show persistent brain inflammation in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), despite being treated with high-efficacy disease-modifying therapies, according to a recent study by researchers in Boston. The researchers performed F-18 PBR06 PET scans on 22 patients with MS and eight healthy controls.
AuntMinnie
OCTOBER 18, 2023
A group in France has offered an explanation for long COVID brain fog, with the concept based on a visual brain pattern they discovered on patient PET scans, according to a study published October 13 in Medical Hypotheses. “We A) PET scan of a healthy subject. (B) B) PET scan of a long COVID patient.
AuntMinnie
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
PET imaging has revealed brain pathology linked to faster clinical progression of Alzheimer’s disease in patients with ApoE4 gene variants, according to a study published November 6 in JAMA Neurology. A link to the full article can be found here. The study authors included scientists at Eli Lilly and Company.
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