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Title: Thallium-201 myocardial imaging in young adults with anomalous left coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery

Abstract

Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (Bland-Garland-White syndrome) may produce myocardial ischemia, infarction, and frequently death in infancy. Some patients, however, develop satisfactory coronary artery collaterals and are relatively asymptomatic into adulthood. Very little is known about their myocardial perfusion patterns. We studied three young adults with this condition using stress thallium-201 myocardial imaging. Electrocardiograms in two patients demonstrated old arterolateral myocardial infarctions. Preoperative stress exercise tests were positive in all three patients. Marked perfusion abnormalities were found in the proximal anterolateral wall in all patients, and one patient also had a posterolateral defect. Postoperatively, all stress tests returned to normal. Thallium imaging demonstrated improvement in ischemic areas, but old scars persisted.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH
OSTI Identifier:
6786221
Resource Type:
Conference
Journal Name:
J. Nucl. Med.; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 21:11; Conference: 28. annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 16 Jun 1981
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; ARTERIES; SCINTISCANNING; ISCHEMIA; DIAGNOSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; THALLIUM 201; DIAGNOSTIC USES; AGE DEPENDENCE; DEATH; ELECTROCARDIOGRAMS; HEART FAILURE; PATIENTS; PERFUSED TISSUES; ANIMAL TISSUES; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BLOOD VESSELS; BODY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COUNTING TECHNIQUES; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; DIAGRAMS; DISEASES; ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES; HEART; HEAVY NUCLEI; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; MUSCLES; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ORGANS; RADIOISOTOPE SCANNING; RADIOISOTOPES; SECONDS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; SYMPTOMS; THALLIUM ISOTOPES; TISSUES; USES; VASCULAR DISEASES; 550601* - Medicine- Unsealed Radionuclides in Diagnostics; 551001 - Physiological Systems- Tracer Techniques

Citation Formats

Moodie, D S, Cook, S A, Gill, C C, and Napoli, C A. Thallium-201 myocardial imaging in young adults with anomalous left coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery. United States: N. p., 1980. Web.
Moodie, D S, Cook, S A, Gill, C C, & Napoli, C A. Thallium-201 myocardial imaging in young adults with anomalous left coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery. United States.
Moodie, D S, Cook, S A, Gill, C C, and Napoli, C A. 1980. "Thallium-201 myocardial imaging in young adults with anomalous left coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery". United States.
@article{osti_6786221,
title = {Thallium-201 myocardial imaging in young adults with anomalous left coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery},
author = {Moodie, D S and Cook, S A and Gill, C C and Napoli, C A},
abstractNote = {Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (Bland-Garland-White syndrome) may produce myocardial ischemia, infarction, and frequently death in infancy. Some patients, however, develop satisfactory coronary artery collaterals and are relatively asymptomatic into adulthood. Very little is known about their myocardial perfusion patterns. We studied three young adults with this condition using stress thallium-201 myocardial imaging. Electrocardiograms in two patients demonstrated old arterolateral myocardial infarctions. Preoperative stress exercise tests were positive in all three patients. Marked perfusion abnormalities were found in the proximal anterolateral wall in all patients, and one patient also had a posterolateral defect. Postoperatively, all stress tests returned to normal. Thallium imaging demonstrated improvement in ischemic areas, but old scars persisted.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6786221}, journal = {J. Nucl. Med.; (United States)},
number = ,
volume = 21:11,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1980},
month = {Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1980}
}

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