Progressive presynaptic dopaminergic deterioration in Huntington disease: a [123I]-FP-CIT SPECT two-year follow-up study

Clin Nucl Med. 2014 Mar;39(3):e227-8. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31828162cd.

Abstract

To illustrate the potential of [I]-FP-CIT SPECT DaTSCAN® in investigating the progression of presynaptic dopaminergic degeneration in Huntington disease (HD), we performed a 2-year follow-up [I]-FP-CIT study on 4 HD patients, evaluating the SPECT imaging based on qualitative and semiquantitative analysis. The mean annual decline in [I]-FP-CIT uptake in caudate and putamen after 2 years of follow-up was 5.8% and 9.6%, respectively. Our findings suggest that [I]-FP-CIT SPECT is useful in investigating the progression of presynaptic dopaminergic degeneration in HD, and may be useful as a disease biomarker, providing an objective method for measuring the effectiveness of future neuroprotective therapies.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Dopaminergic Neurons / pathology*
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Huntington Disease / diagnostic imaging*
  • Huntington Disease / pathology*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Synapses / pathology*
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon*
  • Tropanes*

Substances

  • Tropanes
  • 2-carbomethoxy-8-(3-fluoropropyl)-3-(4-iodophenyl)tropane