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- FIGURE 1.
Myocardial 123I-MIBG anterior planar images (30 min [early image, left] and 4 h [delayed image, right]) of 52-y-old healthy control subject, with early H/M ratio of 2.31, delayed H/M ratio of 2.51, and WR of 26.1% (A) and of 39-y-old man with panic disorder (patient 3), with early H/M ratio of 1.63, delayed H/M ratio of 1.61, and WR of 36.1% (B).
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Patient no. Age (y) Sex Disease duration (y) Disease severity (stage) Drug therapy (daily dose) Drug cessation period* (d) 1 16 F 3.2 5 Alprazolam (1.6 mg) 5 2 54 M 5.8 4 Alprazolam (0.8 mg) 11 3 39 M 6.3 4 Alprazolam (1.2 mg) 6 4 37 M 4.9 5 — 5 30 M 5.1 2 Alprazolam (1.2 mg) 3 6 39 F 6.2 7 Alprazolam (2.4 mg) 3 7 31 M 3.8 5 — 8 60 M 4.4 4 Alprazolam (0.8 mg) 3 9 31 M 8.4 4 Alprazolam (0.8 mg) 5 ↵* Days before 123I-MIBG examination.
Parameter Patients Healthy control subjects P Myocardial uptake Early 1.80 ± 0.16 2.15 ± 0.15 0.001 Late 1.86 ± 0.30 2.26 ± 0.21 0.009 WR myocardium 33.8% ± 6.9% 27.8% ± 3.5% 0.02 Data are expressed as mean ± SD. Uptake was measured by H/M ratio.
