title: Technetium 99m SESTAMIBI myocardial perfusion imaging: comparison between treadmill, dipyridamole and trans-oesophageal atrial pacing "stress" tests in normal subjects.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine the blood clearance, myocardial uptake and heart/lung and heart/liver ratios of technetium 99m methoxyisobutylisonitrile (99mTc-SESTAMIBI) following 3 different types of cardiac stimulation in normal subjects: treadmill stress (STRESS), intravenous administration of dipyridamole (DIP) and trans-oesophageal atrial pacing (TAP). Ten normal volunteers were submitted to 3 injections of 99mTc-SESTAMIBI (10 mCi/70 kg, separated by an interval of 7 days) following STRESS (standard Bruce protocol), DIP (0.142 mg/kg.min during 4 min) and TAP procedures. Blood samples were collected from 1 to 60 min after each 99mTc-SESTAMIBI injection. Planar imaging was performed at 5, 30 and 60 min. Blood retention (percentage of injected dose at 1 min) was 56% +/- 4%, 24% +/- 4% and 38% +/- 6% for STRESS, DIP and TAP, respectively (P less than 0.001). Myocardial uptake was similar for the 3 procedures while the heart lung ratio at 60 min was 3.1 +/- 0.5, 3.8 +/- 0.6 and 3.2 +/- 0.5 for STRESS, DIP and TAP, respectively. Heart/liver ratio at 60 min was 1.9 +/- 0.5, 1.3 +/- 0.3 and 1.1 +/- 0.2 for STRESS, DIP and TAP, respectively (P less than 0.001). These results demonstrated that the 3 types of cardiac stimulation show good imaging parameters with 99mTc-SESTA-MIBI.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hotel-Dieu de Montreal Hospital, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Primeau
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Taillefer
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Essiambre
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lambert
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Honos
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial; D004176:Dipyridamole; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005080:Exercise Test; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D009570:Nitriles; D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D017256:Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi
chemical_list: D009570:Nitriles; D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D004176:Dipyridamole; D017256:Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi