Tl-201 myocardial SPECT in patients with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy: a long-term follow-up

Clin Nucl Med. 1989 Nov;14(11):827-30. doi: 10.1097/00003072-198911000-00010.

Abstract

Tl-201 SPECT was used to evaluate myocardial involvement in 13 patients with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy. Serial studies of 9 patients were done at two-year intervals. The hypoperfused areas of the left ventricle became more prominent with age and severity.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Cardiomyopathies / diagnostic imaging*
  • Cardiomyopathies / pathology
  • Child
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Heart / diagnostic imaging*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Muscular Dystrophies / diagnostic imaging*
  • Muscular Dystrophies / pathology
  • Thallium Radioisotopes
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon*

Substances

  • Thallium Radioisotopes