Spontaneous silent myocardial ischemia assessed by technetium-99m-sestamibi imaging

J Nucl Med. 1993 Jan;34(1):134-6.

Abstract

We report on an 80-yr-old patient with a history of inferior myocardial infarction. The patient was injected with 15 mCi of 99mTc-sestamibi when an electrocardiogram revealed new asymptomatic inferolateral ST-segment depressions. A second 99mTc study was performed 72 hr after the initial injection and after ST-segment changes had resolved. Scintigraphic acquisitions using SPECT revealed a large reduction in photon activity in the inferolateral and inferoposterior walls with 70%-80% normalization. Therefore, 99mTc-sestamibi imaging is useful in assessing asymptomatic silent myocardial ischemia.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Electrocardiography
  • Female
  • Heart / diagnostic imaging*
  • Humans
  • Myocardial Infarction / complications
  • Myocardial Ischemia / complications
  • Myocardial Ischemia / diagnostic imaging*
  • Myocardial Ischemia / physiopathology
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi*

Substances

  • Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi