Brain metabolic changes in patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma after diagnosis and during the disease course: a 18F FDG PET/CT study

The aim of the present study was to investigate brain glucose metabolism in patients with Hodgkin disease (HD) after diagnosis and during chemotherapy treatment. Following the administration of first-line doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine and dacarbazine (ABVD) chemotherapy, 74 HD patients underwent 18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography brain scans, both baseline (PET0) and interim (PET2) at the Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata (Rome, Italy). Fifty-seven patients were further evaluated 15±6 days after four additional cycles (PET6). Furthermore, a control group (CG) of 40 chemotherapy-naïve subjects was enrolled. Differences in brain 18F-FDG uptake between the CG, PET0, PET2 and PET6 scans were analyzed using statistical parametric mapping. Compared with the PET0 and CG scans, the PET2 scan demonstrated a higher metabolic activity in Brodmann area (BA) 39, and a metabolic reduction in BA 11 bilaterally and in left BA 32. All of these changes disappeared at PET6. The results of the present study indicate that ABVD chemotherapy has a limited impact on brain metabolism.

Tipo Pubblicazione: 
Articolo
Author or Creator: 
Chiaravalloti A
Pagani M
Cantonetti M
Di Pietro B
Tavolozza M
Travascio1
Di Biagio D
Danieli D
Schillaci O
Publisher: 
Ekdoseis A. Spantidos, Athina , Grecia
Source: 
Oncology Letters 9 (2015): 685–690. doi:10.3892/ol.2014.2765
info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Chiaravalloti A, Pagani M, Cantonetti M, Di Pietro B, Tavolozza M, Travascio1, Di Biagio D, Danieli D and Schillaci O/titolo:Brain metabolic changes in patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma after diagnosis and during the disease cou
Date: 
2015
Resource Identifier: 
http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/323644
https://dx.doi.org/10.3892/ol.2014.2765
info:doi:10.3892/ol.2014.2765
Language: 
Eng
ISTC Author: 
Ritratto di Marco Pagani
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