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Reduced striatal dopaminergic innervation shown by IPT and SPECT in patients under neuroleptic treatment: need for levodopa therapy?
Psychiatry Research 1998 July 16
We investigated the availability of dopamine reuptake sites in the striata of two patients with productive symptoms and neuroleptic therapy as well as progressive parkinsonism using the new dopamine transporter ligand [123I]N-(3-iodopropen-2-yl)-2beta-carbo-methoxy-3beta- (4-chlorophenyl)tropane (IPT) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). Normal specific binding in the caudate nucleus was 8.6 +/- 1.2 and in the putamen 6.5 +/- 1.3 (mean +/- S.D.; n = 8; mean age, 56.7 years; range 41-67 years). Patient 1 (age 43) was admitted to our clinic at age 38 because of left-sided parkinsonism. At age 40, she developed paranoid psychosis without change after cessation of L-DOPA and lisuride treatment for 3 months. She was diagnosed as a schizophrenic, paranoid subtype (DSM-III-R). IPT-SPECT showed a loss of dopaminergic nerve terminals (right caudate/putamen, 5.16/2.0; left caudate/putamen, 5.92/2.66). Patient 2 (age, 61 years) had a history of paranoid psychosis for approx. 30 years. He experienced progressive right-sided parkinsonism since age 57 when treated with clozapine. IPT-SPECT showed a marked reduction of striatal dopamine transporter binding (right caudate/putamen, 5.06/1.65; left caudate/putamen, 3.8/1.12). Our findings indicate that patients may suffer contemporaneously from Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia. In these patients, the proof of a nigrostriatal dopaminergic deficit justifies treatment with neuroleptics and dopaminergic drugs. Imaging of dopamine transporters with SPECT and IPT or a related compound represents an attractive alternative to the more complex measurements of fluorodopa uptake with positron emission tomography (PET).
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