Volumetric evaluation of 99mTc-pyrophosphate SPECT/CT for transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis : Methodology and correlation with cardiac functional parameters

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BACKGROUND: Volumetric evaluation of 99mTechnetium-pyrophosphate (99mTc-PYP) SPECT/CT is a useful method for assessing transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR-CA). We investigated the methodology and assessed its relationship with conventional parameters.

METHODS AND RESULTS: We retrospectively evaluated 99mTc-PYP SPECT/CT scans of 25 patients who underwent endomyocardial biopsy and/or gene testing. Fourteen (56%) patients were diagnosed with ATTR-CA. SPECT/CT images were acquired at 3 hours after injection. Total volumes of the myocardial regions where uptakes were > 1.2 and 1.4 × aortic blood pool SUVmax were evaluated and defined as cardiac pyrophosphate volume (CPV1.2 and CPV1.4). The heart-to-contralateral lung (H/CL) ratio and myocardial SUVmax were also calculated. CPV1.2 achieved the highest sensitivity and specificity in diagnosing ATTR-CA. In patients diagnosed with ATTR-CA (n = 14), CPV1.2 negatively correlated with left ventricular ejection fraction and positively correlated with left ventricular posterior wall thickness and QRS duration. The correlation was stronger in CPV1.2 than in the H/CL ratio and SUVmax.

CONCLUSION: Volumetric evaluation of 99mTc-PYP SPECT/CT may be superior to the H/CL ratio and SUVmax in assessing the disease burden of ATTR-CA. Larger studies are warranted to clarify whether volumetric measurement can assess prognosis and disease progression.

Errataetall:

CommentIn: J Nucl Cardiol. 2022 Dec;29(6):3111-3114. - PMID 34921352

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:29

Enthalten in:

Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology - 29(2022), 6 vom: 25. Dez., Seite 3102-3110

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Watanabe, Satoru [VerfasserIn]
Nakajima, Kenichi [VerfasserIn]
Wakabayashi, Hiroshi [VerfasserIn]
Yoneyama, Hiroto [VerfasserIn]
Yoshida, Shohei [VerfasserIn]
Komatsu, Junji [VerfasserIn]
Konishi, Takahiro [VerfasserIn]
Inaki, Anri [VerfasserIn]
Kinuya, Seigo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

4E862E7GRQ
5L76I61H2B
Amyloid heart disease
Cardiomyopathy
Diphosphates
Diphosphoric acid
Hybrid imaging
Image analysis
Journal Article
Prealbumin
Radiopharmaceuticals
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
SPECT
Technetium Tc 99m Pyrophosphate

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Date Completed 13.01.2023

Date Revised 30.01.2024

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: J Nucl Cardiol. 2022 Dec;29(6):3111-3114. - PMID 34921352

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s12350-021-02857-7

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM334438993