Published in:
01-12-2016 | Images that Teach
‘Hot spot’ cardiac ischemia imaging with fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography
Authors:
Marissa T. Ferguson, MBBS (Hons), BMedSc, Andrew Mallia, MD, BSc, Kenneth Yap, MBBS, FRACP, Samuel Wright, MBBS, FRACP, Rodney J. Hicks, MBBS, MD, FRACP, Michael S. Hofman, MBBS, FRACP, FAANMS
Published in:
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
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Issue 6/2016
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Excerpt
We present two cases of myocardial ischemia diagnosed incidentally at the time of oncologic 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG PET) imaging. These cases highlight the potential of FDG PET cardiac metabolic imaging to detect acute or recent myocardial ischemia. When reporting oncological FDG PET/CT staging studies, it is important to differentiate focal and intense myocardial uptake in a vascular distribution from physiologic uptake, which is usually less intense, more heterogeneous and does not conform to a coronary territory. …
