SLE myocarditis. Detection by Ga-67 citrate scintigraphy

Clin Nucl Med. 1996 Apr;21(4):284-6. doi: 10.1097/00003072-199604000-00003.

Abstract

Cardiac uptake of Ga-67 in myocarditis has been described in association with a number of disease entities. However, there are no reports in the current literature describing Ga-67 uptake in myocarditis due to systemic lupus erythematosus, a disease that often involves the heart. The authors present the case of a patient with a long history of systemic lupus erythematosus in whom new ECG changes and left ventricular wall motion abnormality developed, and who demonstrated significant global myocardial uptake on Ga-67 scintigraphy. Other etiologies including myocardial infarction, epicardial coronary disease, pericarditis, endocarditis, dilated cardiomyopathy, and viral infection were excluded during extensive work-up.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Citric Acid*
  • Electrocardiography
  • Female
  • Gallium Radioisotopes*
  • Heart / diagnostic imaging*
  • Humans
  • Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / complications*
  • Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / diagnostic imaging
  • Middle Aged
  • Myocarditis / diagnosis
  • Myocarditis / diagnostic imaging*
  • Myocarditis / etiology*
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / diagnosis
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / diagnostic imaging
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / etiology

Substances

  • Gallium Radioisotopes
  • Citric Acid