Why the study?
Does early imaging with GIK-201Tl improve the detection of myocardial viability compared to resting 201Tl imaging in patients with acute myocardial infarction?
Population
25 patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) within 10 days of admission
Comparison
201Tl SPECT imaging immediately and 4 hours… vs Resting 201Tl and 99mTc-pyrophosphate dual SPECT
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
6 months
Authors
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Immediate GIK-201Tl may aid post-AMI viability assessment; hypothesis-generating and leaves open routine adoption pending randomized trials.
Does early imaging with GIK-201Tl improve the detection of myocardial viability compared to resting 201Tl imaging in patients with acute myocardial infarction?
Early imaging with GIK-201Tl immediately after infusion is more useful than resting 201Tl imaging for detecting myocardial viability after acute myocardial infarction.
Toyama et al. (2004) studied this question.
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