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It has been shown repeatedly that cerebral blood flow (CBF) measurements can be used to demonstrate functional changes in the brain. This is due to the fact that normally blood flow is controlled by the metabolism of the neuronal tissue. Measurements of CBF in Parkinson’s disease (PD) revealed a reduction of total as well as of regional CBF, but little attention has so far been paid to the underlying etiology as a possible cause of the CBF decline. In this study CBF measurements have been performed in patients with idiopathic PD and the results compared with those obtained in patients with PD and with evidence of cerebrovascular disease (CVD), arbitrarily termed “increased vascular risk” (IVR).
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Fazekas, F. et al. (1985). CBF Measurements in Parkinson’s Disease. In: Hartmann, A., Hoyer, S. (eds) Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism Measurement. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70054-5_32
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