Cardiac involvement of progressive muscular dystrophy (Becker type, Limb-girdle type and Fukuyama type) evaluated by radionuclide method.
Tl-201 SPECT and Tc-99m-Human serum albumin (HSA) multigated radionuclide ventriculography were performed on 11 patients with progressive muscular dystrophy (Becker type 2, Fukuyama type 2, Limb-girdle type 7) to evaluate myocardial involvement. Hypoperfusion was detected in 8 patients on Tl-201 SPECT. Decreases in both systolic function (left ventricular ejection fraction; LVEF) and diastolic function (peak filling rate; PFR) were also seen in these patients. A high incidence of myocardial involvement of these kinds of progressive muscular dystrophy was suggested.
Nagamachi
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Department of Radiology, Miyazaki Higashi National Sanatorium, Miyazaki Medical College, Japan.
Inoue
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K
Jinnouchi
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Hoshi
H
H
Ono
S
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Ohnishi
T
T
Futami
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S
Watanabe
K
K
Hayashi
T
T
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D015635:Radionuclide Ventriculography; D013668:Technetium Tc 99m Aggregated Albumin; D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
D013668:Technetium Tc 99m Aggregated Albumin; D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes