PET - Myocardial Viability
2-month-old baby having had surgery at birth to correct switched pulmonary artery
and aorta. After surgery the baby still had an akinetic anterior myocardial wall.Cardiac
stress was not possible. Thallium nuclear scan would not have had adequate resolution,
so PET was ordered to assess the akinesis.PET NH3 and FDG scans showed myocardium
to be just stunned and still viable. Revascularization recommended.Bend in coronary
vasculature was successfully corrected with second surgery.
Courtesy of Pierluigi Zanco, M.D. and Giorgio Ferlin, M.D. · Ospedale
di Castelfranco Veneto - TV - Italy. And CTI, Inc. SIEMENS - CTI
