Somatostatin Receptor Scintigraphy in a Patient with Myocarditis

We report a case of myocarditis imaged with technetium-99m octreotide cardiac single-photon emission computed tomography which showed diffuse uptake in the myocardium, indicating inflammatory reaction to myocardial damage. Somatostatin receptor scintigraphy of the heart could be considered in patien...

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Autores principales: Amini, Abdullatif, Dehdar, Firoozeh, Jafari, Esmail, Gholamrezanezhad, Ali, Assadi, Majid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Galenos Publishing 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7885285/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33586409
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/mirt.galenos.2019.03164
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Sumario:We report a case of myocarditis imaged with technetium-99m octreotide cardiac single-photon emission computed tomography which showed diffuse uptake in the myocardium, indicating inflammatory reaction to myocardial damage. Somatostatin receptor scintigraphy of the heart could be considered in patients with suspected cardiac inflammation. This could facilitate early diagnosis and guide appropriate treatment.

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