SPECT imaging of myocarditis.
Gallium-67 citrate has been useful in providing scintigraphic evidence for pericarditis and myocarditis. However, the differentiation between pericardial and myocardial localization is difficult with planar images alone. SPECT can be valuable in making these distinctions, and a case of myocarditis is presented in which uptake of Gallium is shown to lie within the heart, correlating with the histologic proof.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes; D006801:Humans; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed
D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes