Monthly Prescribing Reference

DaTSCAN Aids Diagnosis of Dementia with Lewy Bodies

DaTscan (ioflupane I 123 injection; GE Healthcare) was found to improve a physician’s ability to definitively diagnose patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and increase their confidence in ...
Medscape

FDA Approves DaTscan for Imaging of Dopamine Transporters

January 17, 2011 — GE Healthcare has announced Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of ioflupane iodine-123 injection (DaTscan), a contrast agent for use with single-photon emission computed ...

New scans help Sarasota Memorial doctors identify markers for Alzheimer's disease

Determining the specific type of dementia early in the diagnostic process can lead to more targeted treatments and better ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

DaTscan Approved for Use in Patients With Suspected Lewy Body Dementia

DaTscan is a radioactive diagnostic agent that works by binding reversibly to the human dopamine transporter (DaT) in the brain. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the approval of ...
Mena FN

Simonmed Announces Offering Of Datscan

(MENAFN- PR Newswire) SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., April 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SimonMed is proud to announce we will offer GE HealthCare's radiopharmaceutical diagnostic tracer, DaTscanTM nationally starting ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Effective and Efficient Diagnosis of Parkinsonism: The Role of Dopamine Transporter SPECT Imaging With Ioflupane I-123 Injection (DaTscanâ„¢)

Parkinson’s disease (PD), the second-most common neurodegenerative disease, is characterized by motor and nonmotor symptoms. PD is often misdiagnosed; inappropriate treatment due to misdiagnosis has ...