Trials / Recruiting
RecruitingNCT06019975
FDG-PET in the Diagnosis of Autoimmune Encephalitis
- Status
- Recruiting
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 90 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- University of Milano Bicocca · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- —
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The goal of this retrospective observational study is to compare brain fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) of patients with autoimmune encephalitis, normal controls and patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). The main question it aims to answer is: •is there a specific pattern of brain metabolism in patients with autoimmune encephalitis Participants data and images will be retrospectively collected from hospital records, and FDG-PET images will be analyzed by means of statistical parametric mapping (SPM). Controls will be selected from validated public databases.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DIAGNOSTIC_TEST | FDG-PET | Brain FDG-PET |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2023-03-01
- Primary completion
- 2027-03-31
- Completion
- 2027-04-30
- First posted
- 2023-08-31
- Last updated
- 2026-03-24
Locations
6 sites across 1 country: Italy
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT06019975. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.