Can Tl-201 myocardial SPECT abnormalities in orthotopic heart recipients be explained by coronary vessel wall alterations assessed by intravascular ultrasound?

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 91-96

  Kerber, S ^a   Puschkas, C ^a   Jonas, M ^a   Janssen, F ^a   Heinemann Vechtel, O ^a   Kosch, M ^a   Deng, M C ^a   Schober, O ^a   Scheld, H H ^a   Breithardt, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heart transplantation; Thallium SPECT

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0030589151     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5273(96)02777-5     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. [1] Ambrosi P, Habib G, Kreitman B, Metrast D, Riberi A, Faugere G, Bernard P, Luccioni R. Thallium perfusion and myocardial hypertrophy in transplanted heart recipients with normal or near-normal coronary arteriograms. Eur Heart J 1994; 15: 1119-1123.
2. [2] Ciliberto CR, Mangiovacchi M, Banfi F, Massa D, Danzi G, Cataldo G, Cipriani M, Piccalo G, Dabala A, de Vita C. Coronary artery disease after heart transplantation: non-invasive evaluation with exercise thallium scintigraphy. Eur Heart J 1993; 14: 226-229.
3. [3] Goar FGS, Pinto FJ, Alderman EL, Valantine HA, Schroeder JS, Gao SZ, Stinson EB, Popp RL. Intracoronary ultrasound in cardiac transplant recipients. In vivo evidence of 'angiographically silent' intimal thickening. Circulation 1992; 85: 979-987.
4. [4] Johnson DE, Alderman EL, Schroeder JS. Tranplant coronary artery disease: histopathologic correlation with angiographic morphology. J Coll Cardiol 17: 449-457.
5. [5] Kerber S, Rahmel A, Karbenn U, Heinemann-Vechtel O, Fechtrup C, Lamp B, Block M, Budde T, Hoffmeier A, Weyand M, Scheid HH, Breithardt G. Allograft-Vaskulopathie in der Frühphase nach orthotoper Herztransplantation; angiographische, intravaskulär-sonographische und funktionelle in vivo Befunde. Z Kardiol 1994; 83: 215-224.
6. [6] Liebson PR, Klein LW. Intravascular ultrasound in coronary atherosclerosis: a new approach to clinical assessment. Am Heart J 1992; 32: 447-449.
7. [7] McKillop JH, Goris ML. Thallium-201 myocardial imaging in patients with previous cardiac transplantation. Clinical Radiology 1981; 32: 447-449.
8. [8] Miller LW. Tranplant coronary artery disease. J Heart and Lung Tranpl 1992; 11: S1-S4.
9. [9] Nishimura RA, Reeder GS. Intravascular ultrasound. Research technique or clinical tool? Circulation 1992; 86: 322-324.
10. [10] Nissen SE, Gurley JC, Grines CL, Booth DC, McClure R, Berk M, Fischer C, DeMaria AN. Intravascular ultrasound assessment of lumen size and wall morphology in normal subjects and patients with coronary artery disease. Circulation 84; 1087-1099.
11. [11] Pflugfelder PW, Boughner DR, Rudas L, Kostuk WJ. Enhanced detection of cardiac allograft arterial disease with intracoronary ultrasonic imaging. Am Heart J 1993; 125: 1583-1591.
12. [12] Pinto FJ, Chenzbraum A, Botas J, Valantine HA, Goar FGS, Alderman EL, Oesterle SN, Schroeder JS, Popp RL. Feasibility of serial intracoronary ultrasound imaging for assessment of progression of intimal proliferation in cardiac transplant recipients. Circulation 1994; 90: 2348-2355.
13. [13] Pinto FJ, Goar FGS, Gao SZ, Chenzbraun A, Fischel TA, Alderman EL, Schroeder JS, Popp RL. Immediate and one-year safety of intracoronary ultrasonic imaging. Evaluation with serial quantitative angiography. Circulation 1993; 88: 1709-1714.
14. [14] Richter J, Herreros J, Serena A, Pardo J, Azanza JR, Charvet MA, Honorato J, Arcas R. 201TI Myocardial imaging in a cardiac rejection episode. Eur J Nucl Med 1986; 11: 368-370.
15. [15] Schroeder JS, Gao S, Hunt SA, Stinson EB. Accelerated graft coronary artery disease: diagnosis and prevention. J Heart Lung Transpl 1992; 84: 2190-2192.
16. [16] Smart FW, Ballantyne CM, Cocanougher B, Farmer JA, Sekela ME, Noon PN, Young JB. Insensitivity of noninvasive tests to detect coronary artery vasculopathy after heart transplant. Am J Cardiol 1991; 67: 243-247.
17. [17] Tse KKM, Alavi A, Eisen HJ. Noninvasive diagnosis of cardiac transplant arteriopathy with dipyridamole thallium scintigraphy. J Nucl Med 1993; 34: 2049-2052.