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Visualization of Interscapular Brown Adipose Tissue Using 99mTc-Tetrofosmin in Pediatric Patients

Kazuki Fukuchi, Yasuo Ono, Yayoi Nakahata, Yoko Okada, Kohei Hayashida and Yoshio Ishida
Journal of Nuclear Medicine October 2003, 44 (10) 1582-1585;
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Abstract

Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is a site of nonshivering thermogenesis in mammals. The mitochondria of BAT operate in an uncoupled mode and increase fatty acid oxidation to produce heat at birth. Thus, the BAT of human infants and children contains more active mitochondria than that of adults. We surmised that because 99mTc-tetrofosmin can be absorbed by functional mitochondria in the myocardium and in tumor cells, it could reveal mitochondrial function in BAT. Methods: Between January 1999 and December 2002, we retrospectively analyzed 385 consecutive studies of 99mTc-tetrofosmin uptake in pediatric patients with cardiac disorders. All patients with symmetric 99mTc-tetrofosmin accumulation within the neck and shoulder region according to planar images were selected, and the features of the uptake were analyzed. Results: Increased symmetric 99mTc-tetrofosmin uptake in the interscapular BAT was a typical profile of 65 of the 385 patients (17%). The frequency of 99mTc-tetrofosmin uptake was significantly higher in winter than in spring or summer (P < 0.05) and prominent in newborns. The frequency peaked between 0 and 2 y of age and then declined with age. Conclusion: Gamma-camera imaging with 99mTc-tetrofosmin can reveal interscapular BAT distribution in infants and children in terms of mitochondrial activity.

  • 99mTc-tetrofosmin
  • brown adipose tissue
  • pediatrics

Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is a thermogenic organ that plays an important role in the energy balance. BAT is located mainly in the deep cervical region and at the interscapular site (1,2). In contrast to other cells, including white adipocytes, BAT expresses mitochondrial uncoupling protein, which allows the mitochondria to uncouple oxidative phosphorylation and use substrates (3). BAT is of particular importance to neonates, small mammals in cold environments, and animals that hibernate, because it can dissipate stored energy as heat (4,5). Therefore, the mitochondrial function in BAT of human infants and children might be more active than that of adults.

Recently, interscapular BAT has been visualized as enhanced uptake in the neck and shoulder by 123I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) and 18F-FDG PET (6–8). Such tracer uptake might represent BAT metabolic activity that is stimulated by the sympathetic nervous system under physiologic conditions. We therefore postulated that mitochondrial function could be revealed in BAT by gamma-camera imaging using 99mTc-tetrofosmin because it is taken mainly into myocytes and tumor cells, depending on their mitochondrial activity (9,10).

The aim of this study was to determine whether 99mTc-tetrofosmin accumulates in the interscapular BAT of children and, if so, to define details of the mechanism.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

We retrospectively studied 385 99mTc-tetrofosmin scintigrams from 329 consecutive pediatric patients between January 1999 and December 2002 at our institution. All 99mTc-tetrofosmin scans were routinely obtained for cardiac reasons after the parents gave informed consent. The group consisted of 185 male patients and 144 female patients with a mean age of 9.1 ± 6.1 y (age range, 0–19 y). All patients lived in a temperate climate in the northern hemisphere within a 2° difference in latitude.

A weight-adjusted dose of 99mTc-tetrofosmin (Nihon Medi-Physics Co.) calculated with reference to the recommendations of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (11) was injected into a peripheral vein in all children. Forty-five minutes later, anterior planar scans including the neck and chest were acquired for 150 s using a gamma-camera system (Vertex; ADAC Laboratories) equipped with a low-energy, general-purpose collimator. The image acquisition parameters were a 256 × 256 matrix and a 20% main window centered on the 99mTc-photopeak energy (140 keV). Patients were sedated when necessary. All studies were considered technically adequate.

Two experienced nuclear medicine physicians independently read all studies. Using examples of the location of interscapular BAT by 123I-MIBG and 18F-FDG (6–8), the results were considered positive if the amount of symmetric uptake was more than that of the surrounding tissues within the neck and shoulder. If the interpretations of the observers disagreed, a consensus was used for analysis.

All patients with positive findings were selected and their characteristics were analyzed, especially with respect to sex, age, and seasonality of uptake. To analyze seasonal differences, 4 periods of 3 mo each were defined as winter (December, January, February), spring (March, April, May), summer (June, July, August), and fall (September, October, November).

The interobserver agreement of image interpretation was estimated using the κ statistic (12). The concordance was considered to be good for κ values more than 0.6, moderate for values from 0.6 to 0.4, and poor for values less than 0.4 (13). The χ2 test for independence analyzed differences in the frequency of positive findings between seasons and sex. Probability values less than 0.05 were considered significant.

RESULTS

All images were considered appropriate for interpretation. Interobserver agreement on positive observations was 0.96, and the κ value was 0.86. Symmetric 99mTc-tetrofosmin uptake in the neck and shoulder region was typically increased in 65 of the 385 studies (17%). Twenty-eight of these 65 studies were of female patients (43%), and 37 were of male patients (57%). The sex of the patient did not appear to be a related factor. The patient diagnoses were congenital heart anomaly (n = 39), idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (n = 6), Kawasaki disease (n = 3), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (n = 3), Bland-White-Garland syndrome (n = 3), and other miscellaneous, rare cardiac disorders (n = 11). No relationship between disease and 99mTc-tetrofosmin uptake was apparent in these patients. Representative positive images from patients of various ages showed apparently symmetric 99mTc-tetrofosmin accumulation in the neck and shoulders (Fig. 1).

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Representative images of 99mTc-tetrofosmin uptake in neck and shoulder of patients of various ages: anterior planar images of upper body from 6-wk-old boy with dextrocardia (A), 6-y-old boy with double-outlet right ventricle (B), 14-y-old boy with ventricular septal defect (C), and 19-y-old man with Kawasaki disease (D). Arrows indicate symmetric 99mTc-tetrofosmin uptake in shoulder.

Figure 2 shows the number of patients and the frequency of 99mTc-tetrofosmin accumulation at various ages from neonate to teenager. However, the frequency tended to be higher in the newborn to 2-y-old age group and declined with age. Figure 3 shows the seasonality of positive 99mTc-tetrofosmin uptake. Although the results were positive during all 4 seasons, the frequency was significantly higher in winter (29%) than in spring (16%) or summer (9%) (P < 0.05, respectively). Figure 4 shows serial 99mTc-tetrofosmin images from the same patient during different seasons. Interscapular BAT accumulated 99mTc-tetrofosmin during the winter but not during the warmer season.

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Relationship between frequency of 99mTc-tetrofosmin uptake in interscapular BAT and age (years): number of studies (A) and frequency (B).

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Relationship between frequency of 99mTc-tetrofosmin uptake in interscapular BAT and season: number of studies (A) and rate of BAT uptake (B) during different seasons. Frequency is significantly greater in winter than in spring or summer.

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Serial 99mTc-tetrofosmin images of same patient at different seasons: images acquired in April 2002 (A) and December 2002 (B). Arrows indicate typical 99mTc-tetrofosmin uptake in interscapular BAT.

DISCUSSION

Our study revealed that 99mTc-tetrofosmin uptake in the interscapular BAT can be identified in pediatric patients. In fact, we have already described an infant with bilateral shoulder uptake of 99mTc-tetrofosmin (14). Other authors have also reported a similar type of 123I-MIBG or 67Ga-citrate distribution (15–18). However, they and we supposed that such accumulation was in the pleural apex or in skeletal muscle, and the reason for such uptake remained obscure. Okuyama et al. recently reported that bilateral shoulder 123I-MIBG uptake involves BAT, which is regulated by the sympathetic nervous system (6). Moreover, coregistered PET/CT technology has revealed that 18F-FDG uptake is increased in BAT of the cervical and thoracic spine region (7,8). The 99mTc-tetrofosmin uptake identified in the present study is consistent with these findings of interscapular BAT from the viewpoint of the site of tracer accumulation. To our knowledge, this is the first report to describe 99mTc-tetrofosmin uptake in the interscapular BAT regions of a reasonable size of patient cohort.

Interscapular BAT uptake of 99mTc-tetrofosmin can be explained in 2 ways. First, the thermogenic activity of BAT requires a very high perfusion rate through its vascular system to supply both oxygen and substrate to the mitochondria (5). Therefore, 99mTc-tetrofosmin accumulation can represent abundant blood flow in BAT. Second, BAT has numerous, ultrastructurally large mitochondria packed with cristae and containing thermogenic uncoupling protein. Myocytes and tumor cells accumulate 99mTc-tetrofosmin depending on their mitochondrial activities and density (9,10). Consequently, 99mTc-tetrofosmin might explain not only tissue perfusion but also mitochondrial density and function when BAT is activated.

The present study found that age and season were factors that tended to influence 99mTc-tetrofosmin uptake. At birth, BAT plays an important role in response to cold exposure and maintains the body temperature (3). Nonshivering thermogenesis is the principal mechanism of neonatal heat generation because skeletal muscle function is not fully developed. Some investigators have identified significant amounts of BAT in prenatal and neonatal humans (19,20). Its function decreases with age as the mechanism of thermogenesis changes from BAT to shivering muscle. The present study found that 99mTc-tetrofosmin uptake in the shoulder and neck region of neonates and infants declined with age. This finding is consistent with the features of age-related BAT thermogenesis. On the other hand, cold exposure is a physiologic stimulus that activates the sympathetic nervous system to induce both the mass and the metabolic activity of BAT, which leads to an increased capacity for nonshivering thermogenesis (21,22). Rafael et al. reported that the amount of BAT mitochondrial protein is increased by a factor of 2.6 during acclimatization from summer/indoor to winter/outdoor conditions in the Djungarian hamster (23). Gene expression for uncoupling proteins is more abundant in the BAT of animals reared at 18°C than at 30°C (24). The seasonal adaptation of BAT is the same in outdoor workers (25). Our finding that 99mTc-tetrofosmin uptake is prominent during the winter is consistent with these reports.

The present study found that 99mTc-tetrofosmin uptake in the interscapular BAT was increased in 17% of patients. This rate is greater than the findings of BAT imaging studies using 123I-MIBG (10%) or 18F-FDG (2.5%–4.0%) (6–8). The population and patient characteristics differ between our study and these. Santos et al. reported that cardiovascular disease was the most common type of illness in adult patients with BAT accumulation (26). Because all our patients had various types of heart disease, the frequency of interscapular BAT visualization by 99mTc-tetrofosmin might be relatively greater than that of other studies.

We did not discover a direct link between the shoulder uptake of 99mTc-tetrofosmin and actual interscapular BAT activity. Ethical reasons and the fact that we performed a retrospective study prevented us from obtaining biopsy specimens. Nevertheless, none of these patients had bony or soft-tissue abnormalities that were clinically or radiographically detectable in the neck and shoulder. Moreover, the age dependence and seasonal frequency of 99mTc-tetrofosmin uptake indicated that the accumulation reflects the metabolic activity of interscapular BAT.

In routine clinical practice, physicians should be aware of this phenomenon. Although 99mTc-tetrofosmin can be taken up by tumor or lymph nodes, interscapular 99mTc-tetrofosmin uptake should be recognized as BAT and not be interpreted as pathologic. Moreover, BAT has become a recent focus in terms of obesity rather than thermogenesis, because type of obesity and BAT activity are related (27). The mechanism of obesity and its relationship to BAT function could be noninvasively examined using 99mTc-tetrofosmin scintigraphy. Further studies are necessary to establish the significance of 99mTc-tetrofosmin scintigraphy in BAT imaging.

CONCLUSION

Our results indicate that symmetric 99mTc-tetrofosmin uptake in the shoulder region of infants and children is related to the amount and function of interscapular BAT. In addition, 99mTc-tetrofosmin scintigraphy can image human BAT distribution in terms of mitochondrial activity.

Footnotes

  • Received Feb. 21, 2003; revision accepted May 22, 2003.

    For correspondence or reprints contact: Kazuki Fukuchi, MD, Department of Radiology, National Cardiovascular Center, Fujishiro-Dai 5-7-1, Suita, Osaka, 565-8565 Japan.

    E-mail: kfukuchi{at}hsp.ncvc.go.jp

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