| Literature DB >> 10478741 |
S Kinuya1, T Michigishi, N Tonami, T Aburano, S Tsuji, T Hashimoto.
Abstract
A 69-year-old man had hypothyroid dementia as a result of I-131 therapy and an overdose of methimazole. Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT revealed diffuse cerebral hypoperfusion. The findings of brain SPECT normalized with the disappearance of symptoms and a return to the euthyroid state. There was a 25% or 26% reduction of the mean cerebral blood flow during dementia. This may be the first report in which SPECT brain imaging revealed reversible hypoperfusion associated with reversible hypothyroid dementia.Entities:
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Year: 1999 PMID: 10478741 DOI: 10.1097/00003072-199909000-00005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Nucl Med ISSN: 0363-9762 Impact factor: 7.794