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Apical sparing pattern of left ventricular myocardial 99m Tc-HMDP uptake in patients with transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis.
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology 2018 December
BACKGROUND: A decreased longitudinal strain in basal segments with a base-to-apex gradient has been described in patients with cardiac amyloidosis (CA).
OBJECTIVES: Aim was to investigate the left ventricular (LV) regional distribution of early-phase 99m Tc-Hydroxymethylene diphosphonate (99m Tc-HMDP) uptake in patients with transthyretin-related cardiac amyloidosis (TTR-CA).
METHODS: All patients underwent a whole-body planar 99m Tc-HMDP scintigraphy acquired at 10-min post-injection (early-phase) followed by a thorax SPECT/CT. The segmental uptake (expressed as % of maximal myocardial HMDP uptake) was investigated on the AHA 17-segment model and 3-segment model (basal, mid-cavity, apical).
RESULTS: Sixty-one TTR-CA patients were included of whom 29 were wild-type (wt-TTR-CA) and 32 had hereditary TTR-CA (m-TTR-CA). Early myocardial 99m Tc-HMDP uptake occurred in all TTR-CA. In all patients, segmental analysis of the LV myocardial distribution of 99m Tc-HMDP uptake showed an increased median uptake (interquartile range) in basal/mid-cavity segments compared to the lowest median uptake of apical segments (respectively, 79% [72%-86%] vs. 72% [64%-81%]; P < 10-6 ). This pattern was similar in wt-TTR-CA group (78% [70%-84%] vs. 70% [61%-81%]; P < 10-6 ), in m-TTR-CA group (80% [74%-86%] vs. 73 [66%-82%]; P < 10-7 ) and remained constant independently of the TTR mutation subtype with P ranging 10-5 to 0.03.
CONCLUSIONS: Early-phase myocardial scintigraphy identified regional distribution of 99m Tc-HMDP uptake characterized by a base-to-apex gradient, corroborating echocardiographic, and cardiac magnetic resonance findings. This apical sparing pattern was similar across TTR-CA and TTR mutation subtypes.
OBJECTIVES: Aim was to investigate the left ventricular (LV) regional distribution of early-phase 99m Tc-Hydroxymethylene diphosphonate (99m Tc-HMDP) uptake in patients with transthyretin-related cardiac amyloidosis (TTR-CA).
METHODS: All patients underwent a whole-body planar 99m Tc-HMDP scintigraphy acquired at 10-min post-injection (early-phase) followed by a thorax SPECT/CT. The segmental uptake (expressed as % of maximal myocardial HMDP uptake) was investigated on the AHA 17-segment model and 3-segment model (basal, mid-cavity, apical).
RESULTS: Sixty-one TTR-CA patients were included of whom 29 were wild-type (wt-TTR-CA) and 32 had hereditary TTR-CA (m-TTR-CA). Early myocardial 99m Tc-HMDP uptake occurred in all TTR-CA. In all patients, segmental analysis of the LV myocardial distribution of 99m Tc-HMDP uptake showed an increased median uptake (interquartile range) in basal/mid-cavity segments compared to the lowest median uptake of apical segments (respectively, 79% [72%-86%] vs. 72% [64%-81%]; P < 10-6 ). This pattern was similar in wt-TTR-CA group (78% [70%-84%] vs. 70% [61%-81%]; P < 10-6 ), in m-TTR-CA group (80% [74%-86%] vs. 73 [66%-82%]; P < 10-7 ) and remained constant independently of the TTR mutation subtype with P ranging 10-5 to 0.03.
CONCLUSIONS: Early-phase myocardial scintigraphy identified regional distribution of 99m Tc-HMDP uptake characterized by a base-to-apex gradient, corroborating echocardiographic, and cardiac magnetic resonance findings. This apical sparing pattern was similar across TTR-CA and TTR mutation subtypes.
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