Ka Kit Wong1,2, David M Raffel3, Nicolaas I Bohnen3,2,4,5, Gulcin Altinok3, Sid Gilman6, Kirk A Frey3,7. 1. Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan kakit@med.umich.edu. 2. VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, GRECC, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 3. Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 4. Functional Neuroimaging, Cognitive and Mobility Laboratory, Departments of Radiology and Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 5. University of Michigan Morris K. Udall Center of Excellence for Parkinson's Disease Research, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 6. Department of Neurology, University of Michigan (retired), Ann Arbor, Michigan; and. 7. Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Abstract
The objective of this study was to detect regional patterns of cardiac sympathetic denervation in idiopathic Parkinson disease (IPD) using 11C-hydroxyephedrine (11C-HED) PET and determine the denervation rate over 2 y. METHODS: We obtained 62 cardiac 11C-HED PET scans in 39 patients (30 men and 9 women; mean age ± SD, 61.9 ± 5.9 y), including 23 patients with follow-up scans at 2 y. We derived 11C-HED retention indices (RIs; mL of blood/min/mL of tissue) reflecting nerve density and integrity for 480 left ventricular (LV) sectors. We compared IPD patients with 33 healthy controls using z score analysis; RI values ≤ 2.5 SDs were considered abnormal. We expressed global and regional LV denervation as the percentage extent of z score severity and severity-extent product (SEP) on 9-segment bullseye maps and decline in cardiac sympathetic innervation as the 2-y difference in SEP (diff-SEP). RESULTS: Baseline 11C-HED PET in the 39 IPD patients revealed an RI mean of 0.052 ± 0.022 mL of blood/min/mL of tissue. In comparison with data from normal controls, 12 patients had normal 11C-HED PET, 5 showed mild denervation (percentage extent < 30%), and 22 had moderate to severe denervation (percentage extent > 30%, z score ≤ 2.5 SD). In the 23 paired PET scans, worsening cardiac denervation (global diff-SEP > 9) occurred in 14 of 23 (60.9%) patients over 2 y, including percentage LV abnormality (59% increasing to 66%), z-severity (-2.4 down to -2.5), and SEP (-195 to -227) (P = 0.0062). We found a mean annual decline of 4.6% ± 5.6 (maximum, 13%) in 11C-HED retention from a baseline global RI mean of 0.0481 ± 0.0218 to 0.0432 ± 0.0220 (P = 0.0009). At baseline, 5 patients with normal uptake had no interval change; 3 with mild denervation developed interval decline in lateral and inferior segments (diff-SEP -82 to -99) compared with anterior and septal segments (-65 to -79), whereas the reverse pattern occurred in 15 patients with severe baseline denervation. CONCLUSION: Progressive decline in cardiac sympathetic neural integrity in IPD patients occurs at a modest rate over 2 y on 11C-HED scans with marked heterogeneity and a regional pattern of involvement and decline.
The objective of this study was to detect regional patterns of cardiac sympathetic denervation in idiopathic Parkinson disease (IPD) using 11C-hydroxyephedrine (11C-HED) PET and determine the denervation rate over 2 y. METHODS: We obtained 62 cardiac 11C-HED PET scans in 39 patients (30 men and 9 women; mean age ± SD, 61.9 ± 5.9 y), including 23 patients with follow-up scans at 2 y. We derived 11C-HED retention indices (RIs; mL of blood/min/mL of tissue) reflecting nerve density and integrity for 480 left ventricular (LV) sectors. We compared IPD patients with 33 healthy controls using z score analysis; RI values ≤ 2.5 SDs were considered abnormal. We expressed global and regional LV denervation as the percentage extent of z score severity and severity-extent product (SEP) on 9-segment bullseye maps and decline in cardiac sympathetic innervation as the 2-y difference in SEP (diff-SEP). RESULTS: Baseline 11C-HED PET in the 39 IPD patients revealed an RI mean of 0.052 ± 0.022 mL of blood/min/mL of tissue. In comparison with data from normal controls, 12 patients had normal 11C-HED PET, 5 showed mild denervation (percentage extent < 30%), and 22 had moderate to severe denervation (percentage extent > 30%, z score ≤ 2.5 SD). In the 23 paired PET scans, worsening cardiac denervation (global diff-SEP > 9) occurred in 14 of 23 (60.9%) patients over 2 y, including percentage LV abnormality (59% increasing to 66%), z-severity (-2.4 down to -2.5), and SEP (-195 to -227) (P = 0.0062). We found a mean annual decline of 4.6% ± 5.6 (maximum, 13%) in 11C-HED retention from a baseline global RI mean of 0.0481 ± 0.0218 to 0.0432 ± 0.0220 (P = 0.0009). At baseline, 5 patients with normal uptake had no interval change; 3 with mild denervation developed interval decline in lateral and inferior segments (diff-SEP -82 to -99) compared with anterior and septal segments (-65 to -79), whereas the reverse pattern occurred in 15 patients with severe baseline denervation. CONCLUSION: Progressive decline in cardiac sympathetic neural integrity in IPD patients occurs at a modest rate over 2 y on 11C-HED scans with marked heterogeneity and a regional pattern of involvement and decline.
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