Decreased myocardial perfusion SPECT lung-to-heart ratio: Lucent lungs.
We present a case of a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease whose myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging demonstrated diffusely decreased Tc-99m sestamibi lung uptake ("lucent lungs"); our results indicate that there may be a lower limit of normal for lung-to-heart ratio, below which pathology can be inferred.
Brian
B
Wosnitzer
Gordon
G
DePuey
COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; CT, computed tomography; MPI, myocardial perfusion imaging