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SO YOU WERE DIAGNOSED
WITH PARKINSON’S... DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR DOPAMINE LEVELS ARE? written by Jo Rosen at PRO -this is from PRO's - August Newsletter - Many people who have come to the PRO educational support group meetings, particularly the Round Table Discussions, have heard about the Fluorodopa PET Scan. Generally the audience is asked how many of the people diagnosed with Parkinson’s have had a Fluorodopa PET Scan. Followed by how many were offered the opportunity of having a Fluorodopa PET Scan? Generally the answer is that no one had a Fluorodopa PET Scan, no one was offered the opportunity and generally they have not even heard of a Fluorodopa PET Scan. When women meet the age of 40 they are encouraged to undergo a mammogram, annually or every 1 to 2 years. What is the purpose for starting early? In addition to a screening tool, it gives medical professionals a baseline. As the woman ages and her tissue changes, through ensuing mammograms, this annual screening record gives the medical team information to make critical medical decisions, especially when having a “baseline.” It seems that in Parkinson’s it would be very helpful to the medical professionals to make very important medical decisions if they were able to review and follow a Fluorodopa PET Scan on a person diagnosed with Parkinson’s. A Fluorodopa PET Scan is the use of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) with Fluorodopa. A plain X-ray or computed tomography scan creates images by beaming radiation (X-rays) from a machine through the patient and onto film. Positron Emission Tomography (PET) uses gamma rays in the form of radioisotopes (compounds that contain radioactive forms of atoms) to scan the body and create images that can be viewed by the medical professionals. The gamma rays used in PET Scans come from particular radioisotopes that are either swallowed or injected into the person being scanned. Special cameras are used that can observe the gamma rays, until the camera has caught sight of enough gamma rays to create an image on a computer that represents where the radioisotope is located within the body. Fluorodopa PET scans use Fluorodopa, a radioactively labeled form of levodopa that is injected into the patient’s vein. This type of PET scan is extremely sensitive to changes in the number of dopamine cells in the patient’s brain. Patients who have clinical signs of Parkinson’s disease have abnormal Fluorodopa PET scans. For instance: From the Department of Geriatric Medicine (Drs. Hu, Okamura, Arai, Higuchi, Matsui, Tashiro cont. on page 7 http://www.parkinsonsresource.org/ne.../PRO_aug08.pdf
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with much love, lou_lou . . by . , on Flickr pd documentary - part 2 and 3 . . Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these. |
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08-15-2008, 08:50 PM
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r u part of this forum? nl london
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08-16-2008, 09:36 AM
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 Welcome... dear livinglifew/pd, yes I am a member of this great forum... - my friend Jo Rosen wrote the article... what did you need, may I help you?
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with much love, lou_lou . . by . , on Flickr pd documentary - part 2 and 3 . . Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these. |
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11-10-2008, 06:35 PM
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Ys,I'm just feeling my feet. I've never done this before. I thought I'd join a forum and if I spoke to others who have the same feelings as myself, I might not feel so alone ,like I do on certain days. I was diagnosed with YPPD ten years ago. |
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| "Thanks for this!" says: | lou_lou (11-10-2008) |
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11-10-2008, 08:52 PM
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   what a cool name! you have found alot of Parkies here...and we are all pretty nice, just some are shy....
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with much love, lou_lou . . by . , on Flickr pd documentary - part 2 and 3 . . Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these. |
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