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Tc-99m Pyrophosphate Myocardial Imaging in Perimyocarditis

University of Missouri Medical Center and Harry S. Truman VA Hospital, Columbia, Missouri

Correspondence: For reprints contact: Masood Ahmad, MD, Div. of Cardiology, Univ. of Missouri Medical Center, Columbia, MO 65212.

ABSTRACT

A focal or diffuse pattern of Tc-99m pyrophosphate (Tc-99m PPi) myocardial uptake may occur in patients with acute myocardial necrosis from various causes. A recent study has shown intense Tc-99m PPI myocardial uptake in experimental viral perimyocarditis in mice. This report describes a patient with perimyocarditis, with intense, persistent, and generalized myocardial uptake of Tc-99m PPi.

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