A case of central pontine and extrapontine myelinolysis with early hypermetabolism on 18FDG-PET scan.

We report a 63 year-old woman who developed central pontine and extrapontine myelinolysis after rapid correction of hyponatremia. Lesions on brain MRI showed hypermetabolism on 18FDG-PET scan in the early stage of the disease and became hypometabolic on the follow-up scan. We suggest that active mic...

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Autores principales: Roh, J. K., Nam, H., Lee, M. C.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 1998
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3054333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9539329
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Sumario:We report a 63 year-old woman who developed central pontine and extrapontine myelinolysis after rapid correction of hyponatremia. Lesions on brain MRI showed hypermetabolism on 18FDG-PET scan in the early stage of the disease and became hypometabolic on the follow-up scan. We suggest that active microglia and astrocytes are the main cause of the increased glucose metabolism.

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