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Comparison of radionuclide ventriculography using SPECT and planar techniques in different cardiac conditions

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Purpose

Accurate assessment of ventricular function is required to optimize therapeutic management of cardiac diseases. The aim of this study was to correlate planar equilibrium multigated acquisition (MUGA) with tomographic ventriculography (SPECT) in patients with diverse volumes and wall motion abnormalities.

Methods

Eighty-three studies in 80 patients (56±14 years; 56% women) were classified according to ventricular dilation, wall motion abnormalities and systolic dysfunction. Left and right ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF and RVEF) and end-diastolic and end-systolic left ventricular volumes (EDV and ESV) were obtained using a commercial QBS program for SPECT. On planar acquisition, LVEF and RVEF were obtained using standard techniques and volumes were determined using the count-based method, without blood sampling.

Results

A. Total group: With the planar method, LVEF was 44±17%, RVEF 42±13%, left EDV 147±97 ml (range 31–487 ml) and left ESV 93±85 ml (range 15–423 ml); with SPECT the corresponding values were 40±20%, 49±16%,131±95 ml and 91±89 ml, respectively (p=NS for all but RVEF). Linear correlation was 0.845 for LVEF, 0.688 for RVEF, 0.927 for left EDV and 0.94 for left ESV, with good intra-class correlation. B. Subgroups: Global and intra-class correlations between planar imaging and SPECT were high for volumes, RVEF and LVEF in all subgroups, except in patients with normal wall motion and function, who showed smaller volumes with SPECT. The group with diffuse wall motion abnormalities had a lower EDV on SPECT. In the abnormal left ventricle, RVEF was higher with SPECT.

Conclusion

Good correlation and agreement exist between SPECT and planar MUGA with respect to LVEF and left ventricular volumes. SPECT is useful in patients with functional abnormalities, but less reliable in those with normal small cavities. A combined technique is still necessary, and RVEF should be interpreted cautiously.

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    Teresa Massardo, Rodrigo Jaimovich, Hugo Lavados, Daniela Gutiérrez, J. Carlos Rodríguez, J. Miguel Saavedra & Rita Alay

  2. Department of Medicine, University of Chile, Clinical Hospital, Santiago, Chile

    Héctor Gatica

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Massardo, T., Jaimovich, R., Lavados, H. et al. Comparison of radionuclide ventriculography using SPECT and planar techniques in different cardiac conditions. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 34, 1735–1746 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-007-0472-8

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