Abstract
Fifteen patients with clinical and electrocardiographic features of acute pericarditis underwent myocardial scintigraphy using 99mTc-pyrophosphate. All had normal images. In 5 additional patients with acute pericarditis and evidence of ischemic heart disease, 99mTc-pyrophosphate images showed focal abnormalities in 2 patients and equivocal findings in 2. Serial myocardial radionuclide images were obtained 2 to 18 days after induction of pericarditis in 8 dogs; all images were normal. No stainable tissue calcium was demonstrated histochemically in the pericardium or myocardium of these dogs. The results suggest that 99mTc-PYP myocardial radionuclide images are normal in acute pericarditis in the absence of ischemic heart disease.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 727-731 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Radiology |
Volume | 126 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 1978 |