Comparison of 99mTc-Sestamibi With Thallium Reinjection and [18F]Fluorodeoxyglucose

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  • Vasken Dilsizian
  • James A. Arrighi
  • Arshed A. Quyyumi
  • Karim Alavi
  • Stephen L. Bacharach
  • Jose A. Marin-Neto
چکیده

Background 99"Tc-sestamibi and thallium imaging have similar accuracy when used for diagnostic purposes, but whether sestamibi provides accurate information regarding myocardial viability in patients with chronic coronary artery disease has not been established. Since there is minimal redistribution of sestamibi over time, it may overestimate nonviable myocardium in patients with left ventricular dysfunction, in whom blood flow may be reduced at rest. Methods and Results We studied 54 patients with chronic coronary artery disease with a mean ejection fraction of 34±14%. Patients underwent stress/redistribution/reinjection thallium tomography and, within a mean of 5 days, same-day rest/stress sestamibi imaging using the same exercise protocol and with patients achieving the same exercise duration. Of the 111 reversible thallium defects on either the redistribution or reinjection study, 40 (36%) were determined to be irreversible on the rest/stress sestamibi study, whereas only 3 of 63 irreversible thallium defects despite reinjection (5%) were classified to be reversible by sestamibi imaging. The concordance regarding reversibility of myocardial defects between thallium stress/redistribution/reinjection and same day rest/ stress sestamibi studies was 75%. A subgroup of 25 patients also underwent positron emission tomography (PET) studies with '5O-labeled water and [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) at rest after an oral glucose load. As in the overall group of 54 patients, there was concordance between thallium and sestamibi imaging regarding defect reversibility in 51 of 73 regions (70%). In the remaining 22 discordant regions (30%), 18 (82%) appeared irreversible by sestamibi imaging but were

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تاریخ انتشار 2005