Author(s)

Serigne Moussa Badiane^1*, Amadou Barro², Elhadji Amadou Lamine Bathily³, Louis Augustin Diaga Diouf³

¹Biophysics and Nuclear Medicine, Gaston Berger University, Saint-Louis, Senegal.
²ENT Department, Fann University Hospital, Dakar, Senegal.
³Biophysics and Nuclear Medicine, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal.

On March 11, 2019, the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic disease. It is a respiratory tropism SARS COV 2 infection. In the emergency of the pandemic, in medical imaging, only computed tomography (CT) of the lungs was favored to assess lung lesions. In addition, many cases of post-COVID-19 cognitive disorders have been reported. As the curve dips and services restart correctly, other imaging techniques have been used to better explore the disease. The objective of this presentation is to illustrate the contribution of metabolic imaging in the exploration of post COVID-19 cognitive disorders and to discuss the pathophysiological mechanisms. Hypometabolism brain lesions are objective signs of functional impairment whose pathophysiological mechanism is not yet fully understood. Metabolic imaging with PET-SCAN is a suitable tool for exploring these disorders, both for the severity and extent of the lesions and for the topography of the brain damage.

COVID-19, Nuclear Medicine, Cognitive Disorders, PET-SCAN

Badiane, S. , Barro, A. , Bathily, E. and Diouf, L. (2024) Contribution of Metabolic Imaging in the Exploration of Cognitive Disorders Related to COVID-19. Advances in Molecular Imaging, 13, 1-5. doi: 10.4236/ami.2024.131001.