Dopamine Transporter Scintigraphy Imaging (DAT-Imaging) in Patients With Lewy Body Dementia

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The study is designed to determine the diagnostic efficacy of the visual assessment of SPECT scans in differentiating between probable dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) and non-DLB dementia subjects determined by the clinical diagnosis of an independent expert consensus panel used as the standard of truth.

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Inclusion Criteria:

• Subjects must be adults between 55 to 90 years of age with an established diagnosis for dementia in accordance with DSM-IV criteria and have to fulfil at least one of the following: The ICC criteria for probable and possible DLB, the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke and Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders Association (NINCDS-ADRDA) for Alzheimer's Disease (AD), or the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Association Internationale Pour la Recherche et l'Enseignement en Neurosciences (NINCS-AIREN) for Vascular Dementia (VaD).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Subjects are not eligible if they have a Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) score of <10 and use medication known or suspected to interact with the striatal uptake DaTSCAN to the dopamine transporter.
• Furthermore subjects are not eligible if they were diagnosed with idiopathic Parkinson's Disease (PD), with persistent severe depression, normal pressure hydrocephalus, multiple system atrophy, cortico-basal degeneration or Huntington's Chorea Disease.