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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1977-8-12
pubmed:abstractText
99m-technetium (Tc) pyrophosphate myocardial scintigrams of 55 patients with stable angina pectoris were compared with those of 13 normal subjects. The mean scintigraphic score, obtained by averaging the blinded interpretations of four readers scoring on an integral scale from 0 to 4, was significantly higher for the patients with angina than for the control subjects (1.36 compared with 0.48, P less than 0.001). Among the patients with angina, those who had a prior myocardial infarction had a higher mean scintigraphic grade than those without a previous infarction (1.73 versus 1.15, P less than 0.005), and the mean grade in both groups was higher than that of control subjects (P less than 0.001). Radionuclide uptake was predominantly diffuse in the patients with angina pectoris (70%), although in those with greater uptake accumulation tended to be localized. Three of the 68 subjects had high levels of radionuclide uptake but no clinical evidence of acute myocardial injury. This study demonstrates that excess myocardial accumulation of 99m-Tc pyrophosphate can occur in patients with stable angina pectoris.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0002-9149
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
40
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1977
pubmed:articleTitle
Technetium-99m pyrophosphate myocardial uptake in patients with stable angina pectoris.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.