Early postexercise thallium-201 reinjection after sublingual nitroglycerin augmentation: effects on detection of myocardial ischemia and/or viability

Clinical Cardiology
A AntonopoulosC Proukakis

Abstract

Thallium-201 (201Tl) reinjection after conventional redistribution imaging is a standard procedure, resulting in enhanced 201Tl redistribution which is compatible with viable myocardium. Although this method significantly improves identification of viable myocardium, it increases the investigation time by approximately 1 h. Thus, this technique is suboptimal from the standpoint of patient convenience, since its routine performance may be impractical in a high-volume nuclear medicine laboratory. This study was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of an early 201Tl reinjection and imaging protocol in combination with sublingual nitroglycerin, to detect myocardial ischemia and/or viability, and to reduce the need for conventional (4 h) redistribution imaging. In this study, 62 consecutive coronary patients, referred for the detection of possible myocardial ischemia and/or viability, were involved (mean age 55 years, range 41-70). Of those, 50 had previous angina attacks, with 42 having a history of previous myocardial infarction; 10 patients had coronary artery bypass grafting; and the remaining 2 had atypical chest pain. Immediately after the completion of the initial postexer-cise imaging, 0.3 mg sublingual nitroglycerin followed...Continue Reading

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