Deans' stroke musings: Unilateral Diffusely Increased Muscle Uptake of F-18 FDG in a Patient With Hemiparesis Due to Stroke

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Unilateral Diffusely Increased Muscle Uptake of F-18 FDG in a Patient With Hemiparesis Due to Stroke

No idea what this is trying to say, unless they're trying to say they found an objective way to determine spasticity.
http://journals.lww.com/nuclearmed/Abstract/2011/12000/Unilateral_Diffusely_Increased_Muscle_Uptake_of.22.aspx

Abstract

Although normal muscles accumulate less F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) under normoglycemic conditions, FDG muscle uptake is frequently encountered on PET scans. However, diffusely elevated unilateral muscle uptake is not frequently seen. In this report, we demonstrate a case of unilateral muscle uptake in a patient with a remote history of stroke, possibly explained by increased spasticity, a shift toward fast twitch (type II) muscle fibers, and inflammatory changes that are all seen post–upper motor neuron injury. Thus, FDG PET may serve as a functional biomarker of the extent of upper motor neuron injury after stroke.