Correlation of false negative myocardial infarct scintigraphy with postmortem studies
Journal Article
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· Clin. Cardiol.; (United States)
Negative myocardial infarct scintigrams with 99mtechnetium stannous pyrophosphate (99mTc-PYP) were obtained in two patients with acute massive transmural infarct. Both patients died soon after scintigraphy. Because necropsy was performed within hours after death, researchers were able to correlate the distribution of the tracer within the acutely infarcted tissue with the myocardial scintigram. The clinical implication is that a single myocardial scintigram may be grossly inaccurate in detecting and quantifying infarct size. The scintigraphic findings should always be correlated with the electrocardiographic and enzymatic findings in evaluating patients with possible myocardial infarct.
- OSTI ID:
- 5502984
- Journal Information:
- Clin. Cardiol.; (United States), Journal Name: Clin. Cardiol.; (United States) Vol. 4:1; ISSN CLCAD
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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