Assessment of myocardial perfusion and viability with technetium-99m methoxyisobutylisonitrile and thallium-201 rest redistribution in chronic coronary artery disease

Authors :: Claudio Landoni
Antonio L. Bartorelli
F. Fazio
Alberto Margonato
Claudio Rossetti
Giovanni Lucignani
G. Huang
A. Savi
Maurizio D. Guazzi
L. Galli
S.L. Chierchia
Rossetti, C
Landoni, C
Lucignani, G
Huang, G
Bartorelli, A
Guazzi, M
Margonato, A
Chierchia, S
Galli, L
Savi, A
Fazio, F
Bartorelli, Al
Guazzi, Md
Margonato, Alberto
Fazio, F.
Source :: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 22:1306-1312
Publication Year :: 1995
Publisher :: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 1995.
Abstract: We compare thallium-201 rest redistribution and fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose ([F-18]FDG) for the assessment of myocardial viability within technetium 99m methoxyisobutylisonitrile (MIBI) perfusion defects in 27 patients with chronic stable coronary artery disease. The following studies were performed: (1) stress Tc-99m-MIBI, (2) rest Tc-99m-MIBI, (3) Tl-201 rest-redistribution single-photon emission tomography, (4) [F-18]FDG positron emission tomography. The left ventricle was devided into II segments on matched tomographic images, The segment with the highest activity at stress was taken as the reference (activity=100%). Perfusion defects at Tc-99m-MIBI rest were classified as severe (activity

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