title: [SPECT tomography with F 18-fluorodeoxyglucose in a recent myocardial infarction clinical case].
abstract: We report a 50-year-old woman with a recent myocardial infarction in whom a myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with Thallium201 was done simultaneously with a F18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) SPECT to study glucose metabolism. Myocardial infarction was located in the anteroseptal and apical regions and an echocardiography, done at the second day of evolution, showed a septo-apical hypokinesia. On the tenth day, a coronary angiography showed a critical lesion of the anterior descending coronary artery and an angioplasty with stent placement was performed on the next day. On the twelfth day, a resting, redistribution 201Tl SPECT to study viability and a FDG-SPECT with a dual head high-energy collimator camera were done. Images, acquired 45 min after injection, were analyzed visually. In anterior and medial apical sectors, discordance between flux and metabolism, considered a classical mismatch, was observed. Echocardiographic hypokinesia disappeared three month after revascularization.
authors.affiliation: Centros de Medicina Nuclear, Cardiología y Ecocardiografia, Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile y Clínica Santa Maria. pgonzalez@ns.hospital.uchile.cl
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: González
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Coll
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Massardo
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sierralta
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Humeres
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Aramburú
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Brugère
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yovanevich
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ramírez
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jofré
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chamorro
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kuntsmann
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: López
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / Q000379:methods*; D014463:Ultrasonography
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D005947:Glucose