Assessment of myocardial fatty acid metabolic abnormalities in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy using 123I BMIPP SPECT: correlation with clinicopathological findings and clinical course

Assessment of myocardial fatty acid metabolic abnormalities in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy using I BMIPP SPECT: correlation with clinicopathological findings and clinical course

Objective—To determine the clinical and prognostic value of identifying metabolic abnormalities of myocardial fatty acid metabolism in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy using iodine-123 â-methyliodophenyl pentadecanoic acid (I BMIPP). Setting—Cardiac care division in national hospital. Patients—32 consecutive patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy in whom both I BMIPP and thallium-201 ...

[Assessment of myocardial fatty acid metabolism in patients with angina pectoris and diabetes mellitus using 123I-BMIPP myocardial scintigraphy].

PURPOSE We studied the effect of myocardial ischemia and diabetes mellitus (DM) on the myocardial fatty acid metabolism using 123I-BMIPP myocardial scintigraphy. METHODS We performed 123I-BMIPP myocardial scintigraphy in 50 patients with myocardial ischemia and without DM (AP), in 30 patients with myocardial ischemia and DM (AP + DM), 12 patients with DM and without myocardial ischemia (DM), ...

Dystrophin gene abnormalities in two patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.

Two new cases of dilated cardiomyopathy (DC) caused by dystrophinopathy are reported. One patient, a 24 year old man, had a family history of X linked DC, while the other, a 52 year old man, had sporadic disease. Each had abnormal dystrophin immunostaining in muscle or cardiac biopsy specimens, but neither had muscle weakness. Serum creatine kinase activity was raised only in the patient with f...

Midventricular Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy on 99mTc-tetrofosmin and 123I-BMIPP SPECT

Gated myocardial SPECT to predict response to beta-blocker therapy in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.

UNLABELLED Because of the difficulty of predicting the response of patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC) to beta-blocker therapy, this study was performed to evaluate whether gated myocardial SPECT (gated SPECT) could be useful for predicting that response. METHODS We performed gated SPECT with (99m)Tc-sestamibi on 38 patients with IDC before treatment with a beta-blocker and ...