title: High 18F-FDG uptake in a systemic right ventricle after atrial switch.
abstract: A 21-year-old patient with a D-transposition of the great arteries and a single coronary ostium underwent an atrial switch operation as newborn (Senning correction at 6 days of life in 1992). For an unrelated oncological evaluation, she underwent a recent F-FDG PET/CT. The myocardial uptake was clearly more intense in the morphological right ventricle, as this ventricle has become the systemic ventricle. On the contrary, the morphological left ventricle showed a very faint FDG uptake. This case illustrates the physiological changes related to a previous cardiac surgery.
authors.affiliation: From the *Division of Cardiology, †Pediatric Cardiology Department, and ‡Nuclear Medicine Department, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Fabian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Demeure
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vancraeynest
authors.forename: Stéphane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Moniotte
authors.forename: François-Xavier
authors.initials: FX
authors.lastname: Hanin
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18