| Literature DB >> 2315784 |
C L Fields1, M A Ossorio, T M Roy, D M Denny, D W Varga.
Abstract
We have described three patients with clinical evidence of myocardial sarcoidosis to illustrate the utility of thallium-201 scintigraphy in demonstrating the myocardial lesions. Both the symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals studied showed the characteristic "reverse redistribution" phenomenon. No abnormalities were seen during the exercise phase of the thallium study, but myocardial defects were detected in each patient when repeat studies were obtained at rest six hours later. Steroid therapy resolved the defects in each case. We propose thallium-201 scintigraphy of the heart as a safe and useful tool for documenting myocardial involvement in sarcoidosis and following the effects of therapy.Entities:
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Year: 1990 PMID： 2315784 DOI： 10.1097/00007611-199003000-00022
Source DB: PubMed Journal: South Med J ISSN： 0038-4348 Impact factor: 0.954