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- Title
Exercise- or dipyridamole-loaded QGS is useful to evaluate myocardial ischemia and viability in the patients with a history of Kawasaki disease.
- Authors
Ishikawa, Yuichi; Fujiwara, Motoki; Ono, Yasuo; Tsuda, Etsuko; Matsubara, Tomoyo; Furukawa, Susumu; Echigo, Shigeyuki
- Abstract
Background: Evaluation of myocardial ischemia and viability is very important for the management of patients with a history of Kawasaki disease (KD). 99mTc-tetrofosmin myocardial perfusion scintigraphy combined with quantitative gated single photon computed emission tomography (QGS) gives us information, not only about perfusion, but also the percentage change in left ventricular wall thickness (%WT) and relative changes in left ventricular wall motion (LVM). Methods: The subjects were 27 patients with a history of KD followed as outpatients at the National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan. Exercise-loaded QGS was performed on 21 patients, and dipyridamole- loaded QGS was performed in six patients younger than 7 years old. Results: Perfusion defects (PD) were observed in 12 patients. Of the 12 patients, four with old myocardial infarction (OMI) had decreased %WT. All patients with OMI showed a decrease in %WT in the areas where PD was seen on the image. The other eight patients without OMI showed no decrease in %WT. In non-infarcted cases, the %WT was normal in the PD-positive area. Conclusions: It is possible to evaluate myocardial ischemia and viability in KD patients by comparing PD on the image with %WT determined by QGS using exercise or drug-loaded myocardial scintigraphy alone.
- Subjects
CORONARY disease; MUCOCUTANEOUS lymph node syndrome; MYOCARDIAL infarction; HEART diseases; ARTERITIS; COMMUNICABLE diseases in children; CONNECTIVE tissue diseases in children; LYMPH node diseases; MUCOUS membrane diseases; SYNDROMES in children
- Publication
Pediatrics International, 2005, Vol 47, Issue 5, p505
- ISSN
1328-8067
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1442-200x.2005.02102.x