Oussama77
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Is the diagnosis made only by autopsy?
and before that are the clinical signs and symptoms are the only way to make the correct diagnosis.
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| hitesh
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Diagnosis of AD is mostly clinical with Lab tests being normal and MRI showing diffuse cortical atrophy. Labs / imaging is done mainly to rule out other causes of dementia.
A clinical diagnosis of AD is confirmed at autopsy 90% of times.
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| insight
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PET image:
Normal, Alzheimer , and Pick disease
Attached Files:
alzheimers_picks PET.JPG (56 KB, 12 downloads)
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| ngaybinhyen
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What is the reliability of PET in the differentiation?
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| insight
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One of the challenges of trying to diagnose Alzheimer's disease is that it doesn't cause big changes that are visible on MRI and CT scans.
So PET imaging has a great advantage because it shows a specific pattern that differs whether a person is experiencing normal aging, Alzheimer's disease or other kinds of dementias.
PET scans has a diagnostic sensitivity of 91%, and specificity of 75 %.
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| ngaybinhyen
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awesome
many thanks
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| insight
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Welcome 
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| nightflight1945
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that's great insight
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| hitesh
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That does sound like something new..... and cool 
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