• Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.196-202
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• 2009

Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy is currently by far the most commonly performed cardiac nuclear study, constituting approximately one third of all nuclear medicine procedure. It plays an important role in the diagnosis, prognosis, risk assessment and management of heart disease. Aim of this review is to describe recent evolution of myocardial perfusion imaging on the focus of diagnosis of coronary artery disease. In addition, current status of other imaging modalities will be reviewed.

• Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.179-195
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• 2009

Scince $^{201}$TI was introduced as a myocardial perfusion imaging agent in the early 1970s, scintigraphic evaluation of myocardial perfusion for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease is a valuable noninvasive diagnostic imaging modality. Stress radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging is widely accepted to have high diagnostic and prognostic use in the assessment of patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease. With wise use of this nonivasive imaging technique, more patients are referred for stress perfusion imaging. Until now various protocols for stress testing and myocardial imaging were developed and used in worldwide. This article presented various protocols of stress testing and myocardial imaging for clinical use.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.82-86
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• 2005

In myocardial perfusion scintigraphy, the results of this evalution now confront the practitioner of nuclear medicing with methodologic options. Most nuclear cardiologic studies are performed using thallium-201, Tc-99m sestamibi and Tc-99m tetrofosmin. Some part of these studies use some form of pharmacologic stress test. While tailoring each test to the individual is ideal, this may be impractical for a busy department. Accordingly, established protocols to be used for patients with similar clinical presentations will be helpful. The following review presents methodology of various imaging protocols mainly according to the guidelines of nuclear cardiology procedures in American Society of Nuclear Cardiology.

• Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.222-228
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• 2009

Risk stratification and assessment of prognosis in patients with known or suspected CAD is of crucial important for the practice of contemporary medicine. Noninvasive testing such as myocardial perfusion scintigraphy, coronary artery calcium scoring or CT coronary angiography is increasingly being used to determine the need for aggressive medical therapy and to select patients for catheterization. The integrated anatomic and functional information may provide more additional information for the cardiologist or other clinician by the improved risk stratification and diagnostic accuracy of integrated techniques. The development of SPECT/CT or PET/CT hybrid systems is therefore of important value for the nuclear cardiology.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.210-217
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• 1993

To compare the myocardial viability in patients suffering from total occlusion of the right coronry artery (RCA) with the angiographic collaterals, intracoronary injection of Thallium-201 (T1-201) was done to 14 coronary artery disease (CAD) patients (pts) with total occlusion of RCA and into four normal subjects for control. All 14 CAD pts had Grade 2 or 3 collateral circulations. There were 14 male and 4 females, and their ages ranged from 31 to 70 years. In nine pts, T1-201 was injected into left main coronary artery (LCA) ($300{\sim}350{\mu}Ci$) to evaluate the myocardial viability of RCA territory through collateral circulations. The remaining five pts received T1-201 into RCA ($200{\sim}250{\mu}Ci$) because two had intraarterial bridging collaterals and three had previous successful PTCA. Planar & SPECT myocardial perfusion images were obtained 30 minutes, and four to five hours after T1-201 injection. Intravenous T1-201 reinjection (six pts) or $^{99m}Tc-MIBI$ (two pts) were also performed in eight CAD pts. Intracoronary myocardial perfusion images were compared with intravenous T1-201 (IV T1-201) images, ECG, and ventriculography. Intracoronary T1-201 images proved to be superior to that of IV T1-201 due to better myocardial to background uptake ratio and more effective in the detection of viable tissue. We also found that perfusion defects were smaller on intracoronary T1-201 images than those on the IV T1-201. All of the 14 CAD pts had either mostly viable myocardium (seven pts) or large area of T1-201 perfusion (seven pts) in RCA territory, however ventriculographic wall motion and ECG did not correlate well with intracoronary myocardial perfusion images. In conclusion, total RCA occlusion patients with well developed collateral circulation had large area of viable myocardial in the corresponding territory.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.177-185
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• 1994

Pharmacologic coronary vasodilation in conjunction with myocardial perfusion scintigraphy has become an alternative to dynamic exercise test for the diagnosis and risk stratification of coronary artery disease, especially in patients who are unable to perform adequate exercise. Dipyridamole and adenosine have been used for pharmacologic stress testing with myocardial perfusion imaging. Adenosine is a potent coronary vasodilator with rapid onset of action, short half-life, near maximal coronary vasodilation and less serious side effects. ST segment depression has been reported in about 7-15% of patients with coronary artery disease receiving dipyridamole in conjunction with myocardial perfusion imaging. The exact cause and clinical significance are not known. In order to evaluate the relationship between adenosine-induced ST segment depression during $^{99m}Tc$-MIBI myocardial perfusion scintigraphy and the severity of coronary artery disease, we performed $^{99m}Tc$-MIBI imaging after intravenous Infusion of adenosine In 120 patients with suspected coronary artery disease. Of the 120 patients, 28 also performed coronary angiography. There were 24 patients with ST segment depression during $^{99m}Tc$-MIBI scintigraphy and 96 patients without ST segment depression. Adenosine was infused Intravenously at a dose of 0.14mg/kg per minute lot 6minutes and $^{99m}Tc$-MIBI was injected at 3 minute. We then com-pared the hemodynamic changes, side effects, scintigraphic and angiographic findings. Heart rate increased $90{\pm}19$ beats/minute in the group with ST depression compared with $80{\pm}16$ beats/minute in the group without ST depression(p<0.05). Baseline systolic blood pressure was significantly higher in the group with ST depression($152{\pm}27$ mmHg) than in the group without 57 depression($140{\pm}21$mmHg, p<0.05). Double product at baseline($10.90{\pm}2.77$ versus $9.55{\pm}2.34\;beats/minute{\times}mmHg$) and during adenosine infusion($12.72{\pm}3.89$ versus $10.83{\pm}2.98\;beats/minute{\times}mmHg$) were significantly higher in the group with ST depression(p<0.05). The incidence of anginal chest pain was also significantly higher in the group with ST depression(ST versus 29%, p<0.0001). The $^{99m}Tc$-MIBI images were abnormal in 23(96%) patients with ST segment depression and 66(69%) patients without ST segment depression(p<0.05). In patients with ST segment depression, there were more reversible perfusion defects than in patients without ST segment depression(83 versus 55%, p<0.05). The number of abnormal segments were significantly higher in the group with ST depression($3.05{\pm}2.01$ versus $1.51{\pm}1.45$, p<0.005). In patients with ST segment depression, there were more segments of reversible perfusion defects than in patients without segment depression($2.15{\pm}2.11$ versus $0.89{\pm}1.24$, p<0.05). There were no differences in the angiographic severity by vessel(p ; NS). We concluded that ST segment depression during $^{99m}Tc$-MIBI myocardial perfusion scintigraphy with Intravenous adenosine is related to the severity of coronary artery disease.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.72-81
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• 1992

Pharmacologic coronary vasodilation in conjunction with myocardial scintigraphy has become an accepted alternative to dynamic exercise testing for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. Although dipyridamole has traditionally been used for this purpose, it causes frequent side effect, which at times can be life-threatening. Moreover, dipyridamole dose not elicit maximal coronary vasodilation in a substantial number of patients receiving the usual i.v. dose. Adenosine is an endogenously produced compound that has significant effects as a coronary vasodilator and rapid onset action and extremely short half-life (< 10 seconds). The diagnostic accuracy and safety profile of adenosine $^{99m}Tc-MIBI$ myocardial scintigraphy were evaluated and comparison with exercise $^{99m}Tc-MIBI$ was performed. Twenty-eight subjects underwent $^{99m}Tc-MIBI$ imaging after adenosine infusion and exercise $^{99m}Tc-MIBI$ imaging. Adenosine was infused intravenously at a dose of 0.14mg/kg/body weight per minute for 6 min and MIBI was injected at 3 minute. Adenosine caused an incerease in heart rate ($64{\pm}12$ at baseline versus $74{\pm}16$ beats/min at peak effect, p<0.001), a mild decrease in systolic and diastolic blood pressure and a slightly increase in PR interval(p; NS). Side effects were reported in 92% of patients and were mostly mild in nature and promptly resolved within 1 or 2 minutes of termination of adenosine infusion. Facial flushing (53%), chest pain (36%), mild dyspnea (39%), headache (21%), throat discomfort (21%) were frequent symptoms. ST segment depression (> 1 mm) and second degree AV block in electrocardiography occured in 11% of the patients, respectively. The overall sensitivity and specificity for individual coronary stenoses in 16 patients underwent coronary angiography were 88% and 95%, respectively. The agreement ratio of segmental perfusion between adenosine and exercise images was 92% (Kappa index=0.82). In conclusion, $^{99m}Tc-MIBI$ myocardial perfusion scintigraphy with intravenous adenosine is a feasible, safe and highly accurate noninvasive technique for the detection of coronary artery disease and results are at least comparable with those of exercise $^{99m}Tc-MIBI$ scintigraphy.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.30-35
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• 1997

지금까지 부하-휴식 1일 영상법과 휴식-부하 1일 영상법의 심근관류 신티그라피 영상을 비교한 연구는 있었으나 이들의 관동맥질환의 진단율을 비교한 연구는 국내외적으로 찾아보기 힘들다. 본 연구에서는 이들 두 가지 영상법의 관동맥질환 진단율을 비교하고자 하였다. 1996년을 둘로 나누어 전반기 (1월-6월)에는 부하-휴식 1일 영상법을, 그리고 후반기 (7월-12월)에는 휴식-부하 1일 영상법을 이용하여 심근관류 SPECT를 전향적으로 시행하였고, 이 중 1개월 이내에 관동맥조영술로 관동맥질환 유무가 진단된 280명 (부하-휴식 160명, 휴식-부하 120명)을 대상으로 관동맥질환 진단율을 비교하였는데, 부하-휴식 영상법의 예민도, 특이도 및 정확도는 99%, 35%, 68%였고, 휴식-부하 영상법은 각각 96%, 47%, 78%으로 두가지 방법 간에 차이가 없었고, 각 관동맥 분지별 진단율에서도 유의한 차이가 없었다 (p>0.05). 따라서, 휴식-부하 1일 영상법과 부하-휴식 1일 영상법 중 어떤 방법을 사용하더라도 관동맥질환을 같은 진단율로 진단할 수 있을 것으로 판단되었다.

• 대한핵의학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한핵의학회 1997년도 제36차 춘계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.182-182
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• 1997

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.199-206
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• 2000

목적: 운동부하 심근관류스캔은 관동맥질환의 진단과 흉통 환자의 예후 예측에 유용하게 이용되고 있다. 본 연구는 $^{99m}Tc$-MIBI를 이용한 운동부하 심근관류 SPECT에서 정상소견을 보인 환자의 예후를 알아보고, 또한 이러한 환자들에서 운동부하 심전도나 관동맥 조영술 소견에 따라 예후가 달라지는 지를 알아보고자 하였다. 대상 및 방법: 1994년 1월 1일부터 1997년 12월 31일 사이에 흉통 등을 주소로 운동부하 심근관류스캔을 시행하여 정상소견을 보인 400명 중 추적조사가 가능한 301명을 대상으로 하였다(추적조사율: 75.25%, 추적기간: $8{\sim}55$개월, 평균: $19{\pm}10$개월). 연령의 분포는 $20{\sim}78$세($52{\pm}10$세), 남녀 수는 각각 166명과 135명이었다. 운동부하 심전도검사는 Bruce 또는 수정된 Bruce 방법에 의한 답차검사를 시행하엿고, $^{99m}Tc$-MIBI 심근관류 SPECT는 휴식-부하 1일 또는 2일 검사법을 이용하였다. 결과: 연간 심장사건 발생률 (hard event rate)은 0.21%로 1례의 환자에서 검사 후 132일에 비치명적 심근경색이 발생하였다. 허혈사건은 1례로 검사 후 189일에 불안정협심증이 발생하여 관동맥우회로술을 시행하였다 운동부하 심전도 검사상 양성인 군(27명, 8.97%)과 음성인 군(235명, 78.07%)의 예후에는 차이가 없었다(p:NS), 관동맥 조영술을 시행한 17명 중, 11명에서 정상, 4명에서 유의한 병변, 2명에서 ergonovine test상 양성을 보였으나, 이들 모두에서 추적상 심장사건이나 허혈사건은 발생하지 않았다. 결론: 운동부하 심근관류스캔에서 정상소견을 보인 환자들은, 비록 운동부하 심전도 검사가 양성이거나 관동맥 조영술에서 병변이 발견되더라도, 그 예후가 양호하므로 더 이상의 침습적인 검사가 필요 없을 것으로 판단된다.