SPECT/CT in the Diagnosis of Dementia (DEMSPET)

Kuopio University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dementia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01112501

KUH5031339

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aim of the study is to evaluate whether Tc-99m-ECD-SPECT/CT enhances early diagnosis of dementia in two specific patient groups: (1) patient with mild cognitive impairment, and (2) patient with possible symptoms and signs of frontotemporal dementia. Evaluation of SPECT/CT data is performed both by visual and quantitative voxel-based analyses (Statistical Parametric Mapping). The final diagnosis is based on up to four years clinical follow-up.

Enrollment: 82 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria (one of these):

• healthy control
• mild cognitive impairment (recruited from a population based data)
• clinically suspected frontotemporal dementia (unset diagnosis)

Exclusion Criteria:

• unable to be scanned with SPECT/CT