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Diagnosis of diffuse and localized arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia by gated blood-pool SPECT.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  17704251     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
This study aimed to assess the ability of global and local systolic parameters measured with gated blood-pool SPECT (GBPS) to diagnose and characterize the severity of diffuse or localized arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD). METHODS: Fifty-nine subjects with symptomatic ventricular arrhythmias were prospectively included in the study. With the International Society and Federation of Cardiology criteria for ARVD as a gold standard, these subjects were classified as subjects without ARVD (21 control subjects) and patients with localized ARVD (16 patients) or diffuse ARVD (22 patients). Right ventricular volumes, right ventricular ejection fractions (EF), the SD of local EF (sigma-EF), and the SD of the local times of end systole (sigma-TES) were computed from GBPS data and compared among the groups in the study population. RESULTS: sigma-EF did not differ between control subjects and patients with diffuse or localized ARVD. Right ventricular EF and volumes differed between patients with diffuse ARVD and control subjects, with similar areas under the receiver-operating-characteristic curves, but right ventricular EF and volumes failed to differentiate patients with localized ARVD. In contrast, sigma-TES differed between patients with diffuse or localized ARVD and control subjects. Regression analysis showed that the systolic parameter most strongly associated with the diagnosis of ARVD was sigma-TES. The probabilities of a randomly chosen patient in the diffuse ARVD group and of a randomly chosen patient in the localized ARVD group having sigma-TES values greater than that of a randomly chosen control subject were 98.5% and 96.7%, respectively. For the diagnosis of localized ARVD, a threshold of 80 ms for sigma-TES corresponded to sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values of 100%, 81%, 80%, and 100%, respectively. CONCLUSION: With GBPS, both diffuse ARVD and localized ARVD can be accurately diagnosed by computing sigma-TES for all of the pixels on the surface of the right ventricle.
Authors:
Denis Mariano-Goulart; Laurent Déchaux; François Rouzet; Eric Barbotte; Charles Caderas de Kerleau; Michel Rossi; Dominique Le Guludec
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article     Date:  2007-08-17
Journal Detail:
Title:  Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine     Volume:  48     ISSN:  0161-5505     ISO Abbreviation:  J. Nucl. Med.     Publication Date:  2007 Sep 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2007-09-05     Completed Date:  2007-11-27     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0217410     Medline TA:  J Nucl Med     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1416-23     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Lapeyronie University Hospital, Avenue du Doyen Gaston Giraud, 34295 Montpellier Cedex 5, France. d-mariano_goulart@chu-montpellier.fr
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Adult
Aged
Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia / diagnosis*,  physiopathology,  radionuclide imaging
Female
Gated Blood-Pool Imaging
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / methods
Ventricular Function, Right

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