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High-Resolution Cardiac Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography for Small Animals
Published on: December 16, 2022
Myocardial Infarction and Cardiac Arrest During Acquisition of 18 F-FDG PET/CT
Bilal M Omery1, Amitjeet S Kalirao
1From the Department of Radiology, Aurora St Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI.
Abstract:
An 83-year-old man with multiple myeloma and history of coronary artery disease and ischemic cardiomyopathy experienced cardiac arrest during the 18 F-FDG PET/CT examination. The patient had not yet been treated for multiple myeloma. The PET/CT demonstrated focal FDG uptake about the left anterior descending coronary artery. Diffuse intense FDG uptake in the liver and less than normal uptake in other organs of usual FDG distribution were also present, likely due to altered hemodynamics and heart failure in the setting of an acute coronary syndrome.
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