Comparison of cardio-focal and chest reconstruction of technetium-99m pyrophosphate scintigraphy for diagnosis of transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis: a quality assurance study.

Autor: Akincioglu, Cigdem, Murthi, Mukunthan, Romsa, Jonathan, Warrington, James, Malhotra, Saurabh
Zdroj: Journal of Nuclear Cardiology; Dec2023, Vol. 30 Issue 6, p2607-2614, 8p
Abstrakt: Background: SPECT improves diagnostic specificity of Technetium-99m pyrophosphate (PYP) scintigraphy. Diagnostic performance of PYP data, reconstructed as either chest or cardio-focal SPECT is not known. Methods: In this quality assurance study, blinded evaluation of PYP SPECT/CT data from 102 Caucasian patients (mean age 76 ± 11 years, 67% men) was performed by two readers. Reader 1 reviewed planar and PYP chest SPECT, while reader 2 reviewed planar and cardio-focal PYP SPECT. Demographic, clinical, and other testing data were obtained from the electronic medical records. Results: A total of 41 patients (40%) were considered positive based on myocardial uptake on chest PYP SPECT. Of these, 98% of the patients had a Perugini score ≥ 2 on planar imaging. There was good agreement between the two readers for visual score ≥ 2 (k =.88, P <.001) and excellent agreement for myocardial uptake on tomographic imaging (98%, P <.001). Only one study was categorized as false negative by cardio-focal SPECT reconstruction. Non-diffuse myocardial uptake was identified in 22% of those with a positive PYP SPECT. Conclusion: When read by experienced readers, chest and cardio-focal reconstruction of PYP SPECT have comparable diagnostic performance. A substantial proportion of patients with a positive PYP SPECT have a non-diffuse distribution of PYP. Given the possibility of misclassification of non-diffuse myocardial uptake on cardio-focal reconstruction alone, chest reconstruction of PYP scintigraphy should be strongly considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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