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  • Title: Determination of optimum periods between onset of suspected acute myocarditis and ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the diagnosis of inflammatory left ventricular myocardium.
    Author: Ozawa K, Funabashi N, Daimon M, Takaoka H, Takano H, Uehara M, Kobayashi Y.
    Journal: Int J Cardiol; 2013 Nov 05; 169(3):196-200. PubMed ID: 24075573.
    Abstract:
    PURPOSE: To determine optimum periods for (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) examination in subjects with suspected acute myocarditis, we compared (18)F-FDG PET with endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) using the latest definition of (18)F-FDG PET for inflammatory left ventricular (LV) myocardium. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Retrospective analysis of 29 subjects (18 male, 48 ± 18 years) who have symptoms or LV dysfunction underwent both (18)F-FDG PET (Advance NXi, GE-Healthcare) under fasting conditions and EMB from LV posterior wall within 3 months. RESULTS: When we defined (18)F-FDG PET positive inflammatory LV posterior wall as 'focal on diffuse' pattern, sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive values (PPV), and negative predictive values (NPV) of (18)F-FDG PET for detecting active inflammatory LV posterior wall compared with EMB were 46.2, 81.3, 66.7, and 65.0%, respectively. Receiver operating characteristic curve of periods (days) between onset of clinically suspected acute myocarditis and performance of (18)F-FDG PET for detecting inflammatory LV posterior wall demonstrated 17 days as a best cut off values with area under the curve (0.497, P=0.982) with sensitivity=21.1% and specificity=100%. Sensitivity, specificity, PPV and NPV of (18)F-FDG PET for detecting inflammatory LV posterior wall on EMB were all 100% when (18)F-FDG PET was performed at 1-14 days after onset of suspected acute myocarditis. CONCLUSIONS: In our definition, (18)F-FDG PET showed excellent agreement with EMB for detecting active inflammatory LV posterior wall in subjects with clinically suspected active acute myocarditis. If possible, (18)F-FDG PET should be performed within 14 days after the onset to maintain high diagnostic accuracy compared with EMB.
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