Diffuse Gallium-67 Accumulation in the Left Atrial Wall Detected Using SPECT/CT Fusion Images

Gallium-67 scintigraphy is useful for detecting active inflammation. We show a 66-year-old female patient with atrial fibrillation and diffuse thickening of the left atrial wall due to acute myocarditis, who presented diffuse abnormal accumulation of gallium-67 in the left atrium on single photon em...

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Autores principales: Kotani, Kohei, Kawabe, Joji, Higashiyama, Shigeaki, Yoshida, Atsushi, Shiomi, Susumu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5206417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28097031
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6374584
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author Kotani, Kohei
Kawabe, Joji
Higashiyama, Shigeaki
Yoshida, Atsushi
Shiomi, Susumu
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Kawabe, Joji
Higashiyama, Shigeaki
Yoshida, Atsushi
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description Gallium-67 scintigraphy is useful for detecting active inflammation. We show a 66-year-old female patient with atrial fibrillation and diffuse thickening of the left atrial wall due to acute myocarditis, who presented diffuse abnormal accumulation of gallium-67 in the left atrium on single photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) fusion images. In the second gallium-67 scan 2 months after the first scintigraphy, the abnormal accumulation in the heart was no longer visible. Gallium-67 SPECT/CT images helped understanding the disease condition that temporary inflammation in the left atrium caused atrial fibrillation.
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spelling pubmed-52064172017-01-17 Diffuse Gallium-67 Accumulation in the Left Atrial Wall Detected Using SPECT/CT Fusion Images Kotani, Kohei Kawabe, Joji Higashiyama, Shigeaki Yoshida, Atsushi Shiomi, Susumu Case Rep Radiol Case Report Gallium-67 scintigraphy is useful for detecting active inflammation. We show a 66-year-old female patient with atrial fibrillation and diffuse thickening of the left atrial wall due to acute myocarditis, who presented diffuse abnormal accumulation of gallium-67 in the left atrium on single photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) fusion images. In the second gallium-67 scan 2 months after the first scintigraphy, the abnormal accumulation in the heart was no longer visible. Gallium-67 SPECT/CT images helped understanding the disease condition that temporary inflammation in the left atrium caused atrial fibrillation. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5206417/ /pubmed/28097031 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6374584 Text en Copyright © 2016 Kohei Kotani et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Diffuse Gallium-67 Accumulation in the Left Atrial Wall Detected Using SPECT/CT Fusion Images
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title_short Diffuse Gallium-67 Accumulation in the Left Atrial Wall Detected Using SPECT/CT Fusion Images
title_sort diffuse gallium-67 accumulation in the left atrial wall detected using spect/ct fusion images
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5206417/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6374584
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