Regional myocardial nitrogen-13 glutamate uptake in patients with coronary artery disease: inverse post-stress relation to thallium-201 uptake in ischemia
The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the clinical significance of myocardial scintigraphy with nitrogen-13 (N-13) glutamate as a marker of myocardial metabolism. Within 2 weeks after cardiac catheterization, 25 patients with single vessel left anterior descending coronary artery disease underwent thallium-201 imaging (5 min and 3 h after injection) and N-13 glutamate scintigraphy (10 min after injection). Radionuclide studies were performed in the 30 degrees left anterior oblique projection after symptom-limited bicycle exercise, and regional tracer uptake was quantified by computer-assisted placement of regions of interest within the regions of myocardial activity. Poststenotic tracer uptake in the perfusion bed of the left anterior descending coronary artery (septum) was then normalized to the tracer uptake in the nondiseased left circumflex territory (posterolateral segments = 100%). In 14 patients with a history of previous myocardial infarction (Subgroup A), deficient poststenotic N-13 uptake correlated closely with thallium-201 uptake in both initial (r = 0.82, p less than 0.001) and redistribution (r = 0.74, p less than 0.01) scintigrams. By contrast, in 11 patients with no previous myocardial infarction and normal left ventricular function at rest (Subgroup B), initial uptake of both tracers was inverse: poststenotic N-13 glutamate uptake increased with decreasing thallium-201 uptake during exercise-induced ischemia (r = -0.64, p less than 0.05) and was closely correlated with the percent thallium-201 redistribution (r = 0.74, p less than 0.01). Thus, augmented accumulation of N-13 glutamate in reversibly ischemic (that is, viable) myocardium, and decreased uptake in myocardial scar tissue suggest the clinical usefulness of this metabolic tracer in the differentiation between viable (metabolically active) and irreversibly damaged myocardium.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Heidelberg (Germany, F.R.)
- OSTI ID:
- 5237858
- Journal Information:
- J. Am. Coll. Cardiol.; (United States), Vol. 11:3
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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