28.03. Positron Emission Tomography (PET) in schaemic cardiopathy. Study of myocarcial viability.

Authors

Affiliations

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Nursing graduates. CETIR Centre Médic. Unitat PET. Esplugues de Llobregat (Barcelona). Spain.

Original title

Tomografía por emisión de positrones (PET) en la cardiopatía isquémica. Estudio de la viabilidad miocárdica.

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) in schaemic cardiopathy. Study of myocarcial viability.

Abstract

Nuclear medicine techniques play an important role in studying several heart diseases to evaluate left ventricular function, myocardial perfusion, acute myocardial infarction, shunt quantification, and currently myocardial metabolism measurement.
The ischemic cardiopathy is the most frequent disease and the one with most morbidity-mortality in the western world.
The immediate consequence of the coronary arterial disease is the abnormal myocardial perfusion that can cause other clinical manifestations, such as angina and myocardial infarction. Possibly left ventricular disfunción can be produced, what makes more difficult the prognosis of the disease.
Positron emission tomography (PET) provides us with a new non invasive tool into nuclear cardiology field to measure the myocardial flow “in vivo” and it is the only technique that offers information about glucose and fatty acid myocardial consumption. PET-FDG is the gold standard for myocardial viability study.

Key words

acute myocardial infarction · F-18-FDG-fluordeoxyglucose · imaging diagnosis · myocardial viability · nitrogen-13-ammonia · PET · positron emission tomography.

Bibliographical reference

López Gandul S, Pérez Moure G, Simó Perdigó M, García Garzón JR, Setoain Peregó X, Pons Beristain C, Castell Conesa J, Lomeña Caballero F. Tomografía por emisión de positrones (PET) en la cardiopatía isquémica. Estudio de la viabilidad miocárdica. Enferm Cardiol 2003; Año X (28): 29-34.

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