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MyocardialMyocardial bloodblood flowflow PET PET evaluationevaluation andand quantificationquantification
Dr. Erick Dr. Erick AlexAlexáándersonnderson RosasRosas
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Clinical case
62 year old female patient with a history of DM2 and chronic systemic hypertensionShe complains of progressive shortness of breathassociated with diaforesis and a feeling of “chestpressure”She went to the ER of the ICNICH due to thepresence of typical chest pain
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ER EKG
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• With these findings she was sent for aninvasive angiography
Clinical case
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• A PCI was performed and a stent was placed in theLAD artery (responsible vessel)
• The result was succesful with a final TIMI flow III, TMP III
Clinical case
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• A Nuclear Medicine Myocardial perfusion test was performed to evaluate the remainingterritories (RCA and Cx)
Clinical case
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Vascular territory Rest Stress CFRLAD 0.78 ml/min/gr 1.93 ml/min/gr 2.48RCA 1.08 ml/min/gr 1.93 ml/min/gr 1.78Cx 1.14 ml/min/gr 2.16 ml/min/gr 1.98
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SPECT
• Flow heterogeneity to see the defect
• Homogenous decrease:• Three vessel disease, Left main
• Microvascular disease
Beanlands et al. J Am Coll Cardiol 2009 54: 157-159
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SPECT
Author, year (reference)Number of
pts Tracer Stress Sensitivity% Specificity%
Iskandrian, 1989 (4) 193 Thalium 201 Physical 86 62Maddahi, 1989 (5) 110 Thalium 201 Physical 95 56Mahmarian, 1990 (6) 296 Thalium 201 Physical 87 87Cramer, 1994 (11) 38 Thalium 201 Dipiridamol 90 71Kapur, 2002 (14) 2560 MIBI Adenosine 91 87
SENSITIVITY: 90 %SPECIFICITY: 73%
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46,64%54,05%
34,11%46%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Sensitivit
y
AD + RC+ Cx AD + RC AD + Cx RC + Cx
SIMULTANEOUS RECOGNITION OF CORONARY DISEASE IN 2 OR MORE TERRITORIES
Alexánderson Arch Inst Cardiol Mex 2000. 70:234-40
n = 1600
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PET
• Sensitivity 95%• Specificity 89%• PPV (94%)• NPV (84%)
Modified from Di Carli et al. J Nucl Med 2007
Reference
Number of pts
Women History of CAD
Tracer Sensitivity
Specificity
PPV NPV Accuracy
Sampson et al
102 0.42 0 82Rb 0.93 0.83 0.80 0.94 0.87
Go et al 202 NR 0.47 82Rb 0.93 .78 0.93 0.80 0.90
Tamaki et al
51 NR 0.75 13NH 0.98 1 1 0.75 0.98
Gould et al
31 NR NR 82Rb/ 13NH
0.95 1 1 0.90 0.97
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SPECT V.S. PET
SPECT
PET
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Coronary circulation
Capilar
Smooth muscle cell
Arteriole
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Ohm’s Law: F = ΔΔΔΔPR
Poiseuille’s Law: F = ΔΔΔΔP r4
8nL
ΔΔΔΔP + DiameterR
=
Coronary Circulation
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Radiotracers• Methods: PET
Ammonia Oxygen Rubidium Acetate
Courtesy of Turku PET Centre
Courtesy ofB&WH HarvardUnidad PET/CT
Ciclotrón UNAMUnidad PET/CTCiclotrón UNAM
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MBF (ml/min/g)
Myoc
ardial
trace
r upta
ke
Radiotracers used in myocardial blood flow evaluation
0 1 2 3 4 5
O-15-water
N-13-ammonia
Rb-82
1
2
3
4
5
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Dynamic study
• 11 C - Acetate
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Coronary blood flow quantification with PET
35 sec
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Time-Activity Curves
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13N-Ammonia Myocardial perfusion Protocol
TxRest Perfusion Adenosine
13N-ammonia30 mCi
0 5 20 30 41
minutes
13N-ammonia30 mCi
36 56
StressPerfusion
Total time: <1 hr
•PET protocol + Gating + MBF quantification• Dynamic study
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Two compartments model for 13NTwo compartments model for 13N--AmmoniaAmmonia
Freely diffused Freely diffused 13N13N--Ammonia Ammonia V(ml/g)V(ml/g)
Metabolically trappedMetabolically trapped13N13N--AmonniaAmonnia
CFCF(ml/min/g)(ml/min/g)
CFCF(ml/min/g)(ml/min/g)
K2K2(1/min)(1/min)
K1K1(ml/min/g)(ml/min/g)
Smith et al, J Nucl Med 1988;29:288Smith et al, J Nucl Med 1988;29:288--9494
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Kuhle et al, Circulation 1992;86:1004Kuhle et al, Circulation 1992;86:1004--1717
Validation of coronary blood flow quantification with PET
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Schelbert Cardiol Clin 2009; 27:277
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Coronary blood flow[13N]-amonnia PET
RCF CPT CF SFR
CFR
Rest CPT Stress
EDVI
CFR ≥≥≥≥ 3.0EDVI ≥≥≥≥ 1.5
Alexánderson E. Arch Cardiol Mex. 2005
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Myocardial blood flow absolute quantification:Myocardial blood flow absolute quantification:Clinical applicationsClinical applications
� Diagnosis� Multivascular disease� Microvascular disease
� Evaluation of the cardiovascular risk� Evaluation of endothelial function� Patient’s treatment and follow-up
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Myocardial blood flow absolute quantification:Myocardial blood flow absolute quantification:Clinical applicationsClinical applications
� Diagnosis� Multivascular disease� Microvascular disease
� Evaluation of the cardiovascular risk� Evaluation of endothelial function� Patient’s treatment and follow-up
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Coronary flow quantification
Unidad PET-Ciclotrón, UNAM, México
Improves the diagnosis of myocardial ischemia.
0,54 0,5
1,74
1,1
00,20,40,60,81
1,21,41,61,8
ml/m
in/g
BCF SCF
Healthy Ischemic
3,55
2,38
0
1
2
3
4
CFR
Healthy Ischemic
CFR
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Diagnosis of Multivascular Coronary Disease
� Myocardial flow relative distribution imaging
� Trivascular coronary disease� Left main disease or equivalents� Balanced ischemia
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Stress
Rest
Stress
Rest
Stress
Rest
Clinical case
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1.04
0.86
1.07
0.62
0.58
0.64
Stress Rest
1.46
1.671.67
CFR
Stress
Rest
Clinical case
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Mean percentage of abnormal sectors in patients with trivascular disease
Parkash R, et al. J Nucl Cardiol 2004;11:440
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Myocardial blood flow absolute quantification:Myocardial blood flow absolute quantification:Clinical applicationsClinical applications
� Diagnosis� Multivascular disease� Microvascular disease
� Evaluation of the cardiovascular risk� Evaluation of endothelial function� Patient’s treatment and follow-up
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Diagnosis of microvascular disease
� Heart transplant
� Dilated myocardiopathy
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CFR in patients with a heart transplant
MACE
-free s
urviva
l
Months
Rodrigues et al. Int J Cardiol 2005;201:103
CFR> 2.3
CFR< 2.3
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Diagnosis of microvascular disease
� Heart transplant
� Dilated cardiomyopathy
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Coronary flow reserve in patients with Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy
Van den Heuvel et al. JACC 2000;19:35
Control IDMNYHA II
CFR
p < 0.05 p < 0.05
IDMNYHA III
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
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Myocardial blood flow absolute quantification:Myocardial blood flow absolute quantification:Clinical applicationsClinical applications
� Diagnosis� Multivascular disease� Microvascular disease
� Evaluation of the cardiovascular risk� Evaluation of endothelial function� Patient’s treatment and follow-up
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Added value of CFR as a predictor of adverse events in patients with a normal perfusion study
Herzog et al. JACC 2009;2:150-6
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Coronary flow in the evaluation of cardiovascular risk
Herzog et al. JACC 2009;2:150-6
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CFR as a risk marker for future CAD
Dorbala et al. J Nucl Cardiol 2006:13
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Myocardial blood flow absolute quantification:Myocardial blood flow absolute quantification:Clinical applicationsClinical applications
� Diagnosis� Multivascular disease� Microvascular disease
� Evaluation of the cardiovascular risk� Evaluation of endothelial function� Patient’s treatment and follow-up
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Coronary flow quantification:� A relative distribution myocardial flow image has
limited diagnostic value.
� Non-coronary cardiovascular disease with microvascular dysfunction.
� Coronary risk evaluation
� Monitoring of the efficacy of risk reduction strategies
� New F-18-bound perfusion agent
CONCLUSIONS