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Saeid Mahmoudian1, Mohammad Farhadi, Saeid Gholami
1Laboratory for Auditory Neuroscience, ENT and Head & Neck Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.smahmoudian@tums.ac.ir
Objectives:
Subjective tinnitus has associated with abnormal brain metabolism and perfusion found in functional imaging studies by fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) and technetium99m (TC99m). But there is no study evaluating the association of brain metabolism and perfusion abnormalities in a group of these subjects. The aim of this study was to investigate if there is any significant correlation between the brain perfusion and metabolism abnormalities in subjects with tinnitus.
Materials And Methods:
In this cross-sectional study, 52 patients were undergone TC99m-ECD single photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) scan and F18-FDG positron emission tomography (PET). The results of PET and SPECT scanning were fused with MRI to accurate anatomical localization of abnormalities. The analysis was performed using Kendal's correlation, t-test and chi square.
Results:
Assessing these 52 tinnitus subjects (containing 42 males [76.4%]) showed that a significant correlation was found between the brain metabolic function and perfusion (p value 0.001).
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