title: Reversible 18-FDG-uptake defects on myocardial PET: Is this myocardial resurrection?
abstract: Because it can accurately detect preserved glucose metabolism even in the hypoperfused or stunned myocardium, 18-FDG-PET is considered as the gold standard of myocardial viability assessment. In tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy, a presumed condition of stunning, absence of glucose metabolism however is not a marker of death. This sheds a critical light on 18-FDG-PET as a gold standard for viability.
authors: Bart W L
authors: BW
authors: De Boeck
authors: Frederik A
authors: FA
authors: Verburg
authors: Monique G G
authors: MG
authors: Hobbelink
authors: Birgitta
authors: B
authors: Velthuis
authors: Paul G
authors: PG
authors: Melman
authors: Maarten-Jan M
authors: MJ
authors: Cramer
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D017682:Myocardial Stunning / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000378:metabolism; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography / Q000379:methods*; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18