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The Specificity of Pyrophosphate Myocardial Scintigrams in Patients with Prior Myocardial Infarction: Concise Communication

Elias H. Botvinick, David M. Shames, D. Norman Sharpe^*, Steven C. Klausner, Jeffrey A. Werner, Kanu Chatterjee and William W. Parmley

(London and Edinburgh)
University of California, San Francisco, California

Correspondence: For reprints contact: Elias H. Botvinick, Room 1186 Moffitt Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143.

ABSTRACT

Fifty-five patients with old (9 days to 10 yr) transmural infarcts but with no evidence of recent infarction, were imaged with Tc-99m pyrophosphate. Discrete uptake was rare in the setting of an old infarct. Diffuse uptake was neither sensitive to, nor specific for, acute infarction. Prior infarction will rarely cause diagnostic error if the discrete pattern is required for a positive diagnosis.

FOOTNOTES

^* Present address: University of Auckland School of Medicine, Auckland, New Zealand.

Present address: The Latter Day Saints Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT.

Present address: Harborview Medical Center, 325 Ninth Ave., Seattle, WA.