Summary of brain FDG-PET-CT/MRI results in patients with antiphospholipid antibody-related chorea
| Patient | Reference | Age onset | APS | SLE | Chorea localisation | Cerebral FDG-PET results |
| 1 | 1994-Furie | 24 | – | – | Uni (alternating) | Contralateral striatal hypermetabolism |
| 2 | 1998-Sundén-Cullberg | 20 | – | – | Bi (right>left) | Bilateral striatal hypermetabolism (left>right) |
| 3 | 2001-Paus | 41 | – | – | Uni (left) | Contralateral striatal hypermetabolism |
| 4 | 2004-Léger | 20 | – | – | Uni (right) | Contralateral striatal hypermetabolism |
| 5 | 2007-Wu | 14 | – | – | Bi (alternating) | Contralateral putamen hypermetabolism |
| 6 | 2010-Demonty | 17 | – | – | Bi (right=left) | Bilateral striatal hypermetabolism |
| 7 | 2015-Safarpour | 89 | – | – | Bi (right>left) | Bilateral striatal hypermetabolism (left>right) |
| 8 | 2018-Dombernowsky | 21 | + | – | Bi (unknown) | Bilateral striatal hypermetabolism (right>left) |
| 9 | 2022-Lerjefors (1) | 66 | – | – | Bi (right>left) | Bilateral striatal hypermetabolism (right>left) Bilateral parieto-temporal-occipital hypometabolism |
| 10 | 2022-Lerjefors (2) | 55 | + | – | Bi (left>right) | Bilateral striatal hypermetabolism (right>left) Left parieto-occipital hypometabolism |
| 11 | 2023-Farag | 33 | – | – | Uni (right) | Contralateral striatal hypermetabolism Bilateral temporal hypometabolism |
| 12 | This paper 1 | 24 | + | + | Bi (left>right) | Bilateral striatal hypermetabolism (right>left) |
| 13 | This paper 2 | 15 | + | + | Bi (left>right) | Bilateral striatal hypermetabolism (right>left) Bilateral frontal-thalamus-cerebellum hypometabolism |
| 14 | This paper 3 | 14 | – | + | Bi (right=left) | Bilateral striatal hypermetabolism (right>left) Bilateral cortex hypometabolism |
| 15 | This paper 4 | 21 | – | – | Uni (right) | Bilateral striatal hypermetabolism (right putamen, left caudate nucleus) Bilateral parieto-occipital hypometabolism |
| 16 | This paper 5 | 25 | – | + | Uni (right) | Contralateral striatal hypermetabolism |
APS, antiphospholipid syndrome; Bi, bilateral; FDG-PET, fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography; Uni, unilateral.