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I thought amyloid-β buildup is usually determined at autopsy? That's not really the kind of diagnostic medicine I'm looking forward to. Can it also be determine

by tremon 1y ago

I thought amyloid-β buildup is usually determined at autopsy? That's not really the kind of diagnostic medicine I'm looking forward to. Can it also be determined via brain biopsy?

mattkrause 1y ago
You can do PET imaging for it--there are a bunch of 18F-based tracers that work reasonably well. It also inversely correlates with Abeta levels in the CSF. Ne Neither of those are particularly easy procedures, but certainly better than a biopsy (and autopsy!) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3264790/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3264790/