title: [Study of dilated cardiomyopathies using gallium 67 myocardial scintigraphy].
abstract: Twenty-seven patients were diagnosed as having dilated cardiomyopathies, based on increases in the cardiothoracic index greater than 0.50, in the diastolic and systolic diameters of the left ventricle, and in the telediastolic volume of the left ventricle, which was indexed by body surface determined by contrast ventriculography. They underwent gallium 67 scintigraphic examination of the myocardium, in order to non-invasively detect the presence of an inflammatory infiltrate. Fifteen of them also had endomyocardial biopsies and all had virology check-up. The results were disappointing. Only in one case was the scintigraphic image undeniably positive; in 20 other patients the findings were dubious or negative. This technique did not demonstrate the presence of an inflammatory infiltrate and thus we could not establish an association between myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy.
authors.affiliation: Service de Médecine Interne et Cardiovasculaire, Hôpital Avicenne, Bobigny.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lanfranchi
authors.forename: R N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Sachs
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Beaudet
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Deblock
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tellier
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging
chemical_list: D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes
vernacular_title: Exploration des myocardiopathies dilatées par la scintigraphie myocardique au gallium 67.