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FDG Uptake in Brown Adipose Tissue Activated by a β3-Adrenergic Receptor Agonist Prescribed for Overactive Bladder
- Source :
- Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 45:628-631
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2020.
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Abstract
- Brown adipose tissue (BAT), which produces energy and is known to play a role as a hibernating gland, is sometimes visualized on F-FDG PET in children or in slender young adults in a cold environment. Because BAT is activated by catecholamines, FDG uptake in BAT is also observed in patients with pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma. We present the case of an elderly woman with remarkable FDG uptake in BAT. Activation of BAT by a β3-adrenergic receptor agonist (mirabegron) prescribed for overactive bladder was suspected as the cause of the marked visualization of BAT in this patient.
- Subjects :
- Agonist
medicine.medical_specialty
animal structures
medicine.drug_class
Adrenal Gland Neoplasms
Adipose tissue
Pheochromocytoma
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Adipose Tissue, Brown
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Internal medicine
Brown adipose tissue
medicine
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Receptor
Aged, 80 and over
Urinary bladder
Urinary Bladder, Overactive
business.industry
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Adrenergic Agonists
Thiazoles
medicine.anatomical_structure
Endocrinology
Overactive bladder
Positron-Emission Tomography
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Acetanilides
Female
Radiopharmaceuticals
Mirabegron
business
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15360229 and 03639762
- Volume :
- 45
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Nuclear Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....14bef5e33b4be511182160218cd6a881