Population
A 46-year-old man, a coal miner for 30 years, with pneumoconiosis and a suspicious pulmonary nodule.
Design
Case_report
Authors
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Intense RV FDG uptake may flag pressure overload in pulmonary hypertension; leaves open its diagnostic value pending prospective validation.
Intense FDG uptake in the right ventricle on PET imaging can serve as an important indicator of RV pressure overload and underlying pulmonary hypertension.
Basu et al. (2007) studied this question.
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