High 18F-FDG Uptake in a Systemic Right Ventricle After Atrial Switch. (May 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Demeure, Fabian; Vancraeynest, David; Moniotte, Stéphane; Hanin, François-Xavier
• Is Part Of: Clinical nuclear medicine. Volume 40:Number 5(2015)
• Publication Date: 2015-05
• Subjects: Nuclear medicine -- Periodicals; Radioisotope scanning -- Periodicals; Nuclear Medicine -- Periodicals; 616.07575
• DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000000675
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0363-9762

Abstract

<abstract> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <sec> <title>Abstract</title> <p>A 21-year-old patient with a D-transposition of the great arteries and a single coronary ostium underwent an atrial switch operation as newborn (Senning correction at 6 days of life in 1992). For an unrelated oncological evaluation, she underwent a recent ¹⁸ F-FDG PET/CT. The myocardial uptake was clearly more intense in the morphological right ventricle, as this ventricle has become the systemic ventricle. On the contrary, the morphological left ventricle showed a very faint FDG uptake. This case illustrates the physiological changes related to a previous cardiac surgery.</p> </sec> </abstract>