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Can radionuclide imaging noninvasively visualize the location, size, and complications of acute myocardial infarction?
Can radionuclide imaging noninvasively visualize the location, size, and complications of acute myocardial infarction?
Radionuclide imaging is a useful noninvasive tool for detecting the location, size, and structural complications of acute myocardial infarction.
May aid noninvasive acute MI assessment in select cases; leaves open validation against modern modalities in prospective studies.
Radionuclide imaging was useful for noninvasively visualizing a location and size of infarction in two patients with acute myocardial infarction. In one patient, inferior subendocardial myocardial infarction was detected by 99mTc-PYP myocardial scintigraphy and then inferior transmural infarction was observed as more intense radioactivity with a larger size. In the other patient with acute extensive anterior myocardial infarction, akinesis of the left ventricular wall and left ventricular aneurysm were confirmed by first-pass radionuclide angiocardiography and multigated equilibrium cardiac pool scan.
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