Impressive lung uptake during exercise thallium imaging with decrease of systolic blood pressure.
A case of very high thallium lung activity during exercise myocardial imaging in a patient with an old myocardial infarction but free from typical angina or heart failure symptoms is reported. The impressively abnormal lung uptake occurred in connection with a stress-induced fall in the systolic blood pressure, pointing out a causal rôle of a transient left ventricular dysfunction and interstitial pulmonary oedema in the genesis of the scintigraphic picture. Three weeks after the test, the patient suddenly died at home.
Favaro
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Divisione di Cardiologia, Ospedale Regionale di Parma, Italy.
Masini
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F
Tagliavini
S
S
Gavaruzzi
G
G
Ugolotti
G
G
Botti
G
G
D001794:Blood Pressure; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005080:Exercise Test; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes
D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes