1. Dopamine transporter imaging deficit predicts early transition to synucleinopathy in idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder.
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Iranzo A, Santamaría J, Valldeoriola F, Serradell M, Salamero M, Gaig C, Niñerola-Baizán A, Sánchez-Valle R, Lladó A, De Marzi R, Stefani A, Seppi K, Pavia J, Högl B, Poewe W, Tolosa E, and Lomeña F
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- Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Biomarkers, Brain metabolism, Disease Progression, Female, Humans, Lewy Body Disease metabolism, Male, Middle Aged, Parkinson Disease metabolism, Polysomnography, REM Sleep Behavior Disorder metabolism, Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon, Brain diagnostic imaging, Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins metabolism, Lewy Body Disease diagnostic imaging, Parkinson Disease diagnostic imaging, REM Sleep Behavior Disorder diagnostic imaging, Synucleins metabolism
- Abstract
Objective: To determine the usefulness of dopamine transporter (DAT) imaging to identify idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (IRBD) patients at risk for short-term development of clinically defined synucleinopathy., Methods: Eighty-seven patients with polysomnography-confirmed IRBD underwent
123 I-FP-CIT DAT-SPECT. Results were compared to 20 matched controls without RBD who underwent DAT-SPECT. In patients, FP-CIT uptake was considered abnormal when values were two standard deviations below controls' mean uptake. After DAT-SPECT, patients were followed up during 5.7 ± 2.2 (range, 2.6-9.9) years., Results: Baseline DAT deficit was found in 51 (58.6%) patients. During follow-up, 25 (28.7%) subjects developed clinically defined synucleinopathy (Parkinson's disease in 11, dementia with Lewy bodies in 13, and multiple system atrophy in 1) with mean latency of 3.2 ± 1.9 years from imaging. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis showed increased risk of incident synucleinopathy in patients with abnormal DAT-SPECT than with normal DAT-SPECT (20% vs 6% at 3 years, 33% vs 18% at 5 years; log rank test, p = 0.006). Receiver operating characteristics curve revealed that reduction of FP-CIT uptake in putamen greater than 25% discriminated patients with DAT deficit who developed synucleinopathy from patients with DAT deficit that remained disease free after 3 years of follow-up. At 5-year follow-up, DAT-SPECT had 75% sensitivity, 51% specificity, 44% positive predictive value, 80% negative predictive value, and likelihood ratio 1.54 to predict synucleinopathy., Interpretation: DAT-SPECT identifies IRBD patients at short-term risk for synucleinopathy. Decreased FP-CIT putamen uptake greater than 25% predicts synucleinopathy after 3 years' follow-up. These observations may be useful to select candidates for disease modification trials in IRBD. Ann Neurol 2017;82:419-428., (© 2017 American Neurological Association.)- Published
- 2017
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