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Cardiac sarcoidosis demonstrated by Tl-201 and Ga-67 SPECT imaging
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Japan.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|September 1, 1990
Abstract:
Ga-67 and Tl-201 SPECT was performed to evaluate cardiac sarcoidosis in a 15-year-old boy. Tl-201 SPECT imaging showed decreased uptake in the inferior to lateral wall and Ga-67 accumulation in the area of decreased Tl-201 uptake. These findings suggested cardiac sarcoidosis, and cardiac biopsy confirmed this diagnosis. After corticosteroid therapy, myocardial uptake of Ga-67 disappeared and myocardial TI-201 uptake became more homogeneous.