Brain imaging associated with change in management of patients with dementia, cognitive impairment

(JAMA Network) Amyloid (abnormal protein) plaques in the brain are a feature of Alzheimer disease and imaging the brain with positron emission tomography (PET) can detect them. This study examined whether such imaging is associated with changes in patient care, although amyloid deposits also occur with other neurological disorders and in cognitively normal older adults. This study included about 11,400 Medicare beneficiaries with dementia or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) of uncertain cause who underwent amyloid PET.

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