Cardiac involvement of progressive muscular dystrophy (Becker type, Limb-girdle type and Fukuyama type) evaluated by radionuclide method

S Nagamachi; K Inoue; S Jinnouchi; H Hoshi; S Ono; T Ohnishi; S Futami; K Watanabe; T Hayashi

doi:10.1007/BF03164989

Cardiac involvement of progressive muscular dystrophy (Becker type, Limb-girdle type and Fukuyama type) evaluated by radionuclide method

Ann Nucl Med. 1994 Feb;8(1):71-4. doi: 10.1007/BF03164989.

Authors

S Nagamachi¹, K Inoue, S Jinnouchi, H Hoshi, S Ono, T Ohnishi, S Futami, K Watanabe, T Hayashi

Affiliation

¹ Department of Radiology, Miyazaki Higashi National Sanatorium, Miyazaki Medical College, Japan.

PMID: 8204400
DOI: 10.1007/BF03164989

Abstract

Tl-201 SPECT and Tc-99m-Human serum albumin (HSA) multigated radionuclide ventriculography were performed on 11 patients with progressive muscular dystrophy (Becker type 2, Fukuyama type 2, Limb-girdle type 7) to evaluate myocardial involvement. Hypoperfusion was detected in 8 patients on Tl-201 SPECT. Decreases in both systolic function (left ventricular ejection fraction; LVEF) and diastolic function (peak filling rate; PFR) were also seen in these patients. A high incidence of myocardial involvement of these kinds of progressive muscular dystrophy was suggested.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Child
Female
Heart / diagnostic imaging*
Heart / physiopathology
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Muscular Dystrophies / diagnostic imaging*
Muscular Dystrophies / physiopathology
Radionuclide Ventriculography*
Technetium Tc 99m Aggregated Albumin
Thallium Radioisotopes
Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon*

Substances

Technetium Tc 99m Aggregated Albumin
Thallium Radioisotopes