PMID: 9183145Apr 1, 1997Paper

Evaluation of myocardial perfusion by 99mTc-tetrofosmin SPECT before and after emergent percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction

Kaku igaku. The Japanese journal of nuclear medicine
Y KawaiN Tamaki

Abstract

To assess clinical performance of coronary perfusion in patients with acute myocardial infarction following successful PTCA, various 99mTc-tetrofosmin (TF) SPECT were obtained. Twenty-eight patients with acute myocardial infarction underwent TF SPECT before emergent PTCA (acute phase), after 7 days (subacute phase) and 4 weeks (chronic phase) later. Twenty-eight patients divided into 2 groups. Early group; time lug from onset of AMI till PTCA is 6 hours or shorter (n = 17), delayed group; time lug is more than 6 hrs (n = 11). The defect scores were graded by 4 points grading system (0 as normal to 3 as defect) in 14 myocardial segments. In early group, the mean defect score was 13 +/- 7 at acute phase, 6 +/- 5 at subacute phase, and 3 +/- 4 at chronic phase. In delayed group, the mean value of defect score at each phases were 18 +/- 7, 14 +/- 7, and 13 +/- 7. The improvement of defect score of early group was significantly larger than that of delayed group (p < 0.005). These data indicate that PTCA therapy for acute MI patients is useful particularly in the early stage following acute MI.

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