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Volume 6
Journal of Child and Adolescent Behavior
October 01-02, 2018 Osaka, Japan
3
rd
World Congress on
Pediatric Neurology and Pediatric Surgery
Neuropediatrics 2018
October 01-02, 2018
Confirmation of brain death with positron emission tomography
Semra Ozdemir, Yusuf Ziya Tan, Fulya Koc Ozturk and Fatih Battal
Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey
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fter the recent developments in organ transplantation, brain death has gained importance as soon as it is possible to
diagnose it. Brain death is the irreversible loss of all activities of the brain, brainstem and cerebellum, which are the parts
of the central nervous system that remain in the skull. Clinical findings as well as some ancillary tests are important when
diagnosing brain death. We present the scintigraphic imaging of brain death with both Tc-99m DTPA and F-18 FDG in an
eight years old girl. A dynamic scintigraphic study was performed after the intravenous bolus administration of Tc-99m DTPA
to an 8-year-old patient with the clinical diagnosis of brain death. In scintigraphic study, the activity of the scalp due to the
circulation of the external cerebral artery can be misleading. For this reason to precisely determine the existence of brain death
F-18 PET-CT study was performed. In PET-CT imaging, no significant intracranial accumulation of 18F-FDG was seen in our
case. The absence of glucose uptake in the brain is an indirect indication of no cerebral blood flow. It is concluded that PET
FDG imaging may be a useful technique in evaluating patients for brain death.
semozdemir@yahoo.comJ Child Adolesc Behav 2018, Volume 6
DOI: 10.4172/2375-4494-C1-006