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PET CT Brain for the Differential Diagnosis of Dementia -Indian Case Reports



Aman Gupta1, *, Aashish Gambhir2
1 Amity Institute of Neuropsychology and Neurosciences, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Sector-125, Noida-201313, India
2 Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET-CT, Yashoda Hospital and Research Centre Ghaziabad Uttar Pradesh 201001 Delhi NCR - Uttar Pradesh 201001


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* Address correspondence to this author at the Amity Institute of Neurosciences, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India, Previously At, Visiting Fellowship Functional MRI, Harvard Medical School, USA, Diplomate in Sleep Medicine, University of Oxford, London, UK; Tel: +911294013135, 919953270158; E-mail:Gupta.draman@gmail.com


Abstract

India has been termed as Diabetic hub of the globe. Along with other complications, one of the underestimated complication is cognitive decline and memory loss associated with poor diabetes control. In the Indian context, structural imaging like MRI-Magnetic Resonance imaging is more commonly used in Neurological disorders such as stroke, head injury, Functional imaging of the human brain has been underutilized in the Indian scenario. One such technique is PET CT which has been typically used as a cancer biomarker in India. By virtue of current case study, we propose i) association between poor control of Diabetes and poor cognition ii) role of PET CT brain in differential diagnosis of Dementia. We present two case reports providing strong findings for utilization of PET CT brain in Dementia protocols.

Keywords: Diabetes, Memory, Dementia, Cognition, Alzheimer’s Disease, PET CT.