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Diagnostic and Pathophysiological Impact of Myocardial MIBG Scintigraphy in Parkinson's Disease.

Parkinsons Dis · 2009-12-22

DOI: 10.4061/2010/295346PMID: 20975774

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Myocardial MIBG scintigraphy is established in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD). Numerous studies address the pathophysiological impact of myocardial MIBG scintigraphy: the myocardial MIBG uptake correlates with the clinical phenotype of PD; the background of this phenomenon is unclear. Furthermore MIBG scintigraphy enables to study the extracranial Lewy body type-degeneration. In combination with cerebral dopamine transporter imaging, MIBG scintigraphy allows to correlate cerebral and extracranial Lewy body type-degeneration in PD.

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