PURPOSE: We characterized the progression of dopamine transporter (DAT) decline in the striatum and extrastriatal regions including the midbrain and pons of patients with the Parkinson variant of multiple system atrophy (MSA-P) and compared longitudinally collected SPECT results with those in a cohort of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). METHODS: Eight patients with MSA-P (age 60.4 ± 7.7 years, disease duration 2.4 ± 1 years, UPDRS-III motor score 39.7 ± 4.7), and 11 patients with PD (age 61.2 ± 6.4 years, disease duration 2.4 ± 1.1 years, UPDRS-III motor score 18.9 ± 7.6) underwent a baseline and follow-up [(123)I]β-CIT SPECT investigation within a time period of 1.3 years. Statistical parametric mapping (SPM) and a repetitive ANOVA design were used to objectively localize the decline in DAT availability without having to make an a priori hypothesis as to its location. RESULTS: SPM localized significant reductions in [(123)I]β-CIT uptake in the dorsal brainstem of MSA-P patients compared to PD patients (p < 0.001) at baseline. Additional reductions in the DAT signal were localized in the caudate and anterior putamen of patients with MSA-P patients compared to PD patients at the follow-up examination (p < 0.001). Relative decline in tracer binding was evident in the caudate and anterior putamen of MSA-P patients compared to PD patients in the longitudinal analysis (p < 0.05), whereas no significant relative signal alteration was observed in the brainstem. CONCLUSION: In contrast to PD, the relatively higher rate of signal reduction in the caudate and anterior putamen is consistent with the faster disease progression reported in MSA-P. At baseline, the tracer uptake in the brainstem was already at very low levels in the MSA-P patients compared to that in healthy control subjects and did not progress any further, suggesting that the degeneration of monoaminergic neurons is almost complete early in the disease course.
PURPOSE: We characterized the progression of dopamine transporter (DAT) decline in the striatum and extrastriatal regions including the midbrain and pons of patients with the Parkinson variant of multiple system atrophy (MSA-P) and compared longitudinally collected SPECT results with those in a cohort of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). METHODS: Eight patients with MSA-P (age 60.4 ± 7.7 years, disease duration 2.4 ± 1 years, UPDRS-III motor score 39.7 ± 4.7), and 11 patients with PD (age 61.2 ± 6.4 years, disease duration 2.4 ± 1.1 years, UPDRS-III motor score 18.9 ± 7.6) underwent a baseline and follow-up [(123)I]β-CIT SPECT investigation within a time period of 1.3 years. Statistical parametric mapping (SPM) and a repetitive ANOVA design were used to objectively localize the decline in DAT availability without having to make an a priori hypothesis as to its location. RESULTS: SPM localized significant reductions in [(123)I]β-CIT uptake in the dorsal brainstem of MSA-P patients compared to PDpatients (p < 0.001) at baseline. Additional reductions in the DAT signal were localized in the caudate and anterior putamen of patients with MSA-P patients compared to PDpatients at the follow-up examination (p < 0.001). Relative decline in tracer binding was evident in the caudate and anterior putamen of MSA-P patients compared to PDpatients in the longitudinal analysis (p < 0.05), whereas no significant relative signal alteration was observed in the brainstem. CONCLUSION: In contrast to PD, the relatively higher rate of signal reduction in the caudate and anterior putamen is consistent with the faster disease progression reported in MSA-P. At baseline, the tracer uptake in the brainstem was already at very low levels in the MSA-P patients compared to that in healthy control subjects and did not progress any further, suggesting that the degeneration of monoaminergic neurons is almost complete early in the disease course.
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