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First determination of the heart-to-mediastinum ratio using cardiac dual isotope (123I-MIBG/99mTc-tetrofosmin) CZT imaging in patients with heart failure: the ADRECARD study

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Abstract

Purpose

Cardiac innervation is assessed using the heart-to-mediastinum ratio (HMR) of metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) on planar imaging using Anger single photon emission computed tomography (A-SPECT). The aim of the study was to determine the HMR of MIBG obtained using a CZT-based camera (D-SPECT; Spectrum Dynamics, Israel) in comparison with that obtained using conventional planar imaging.

Methods

The ADRECARD study prospectively evaluated 44 patients with heart failure. They underwent planar acquisition using the A-SPECT camera 4 h after 123I-MIBG injection (236.4 ± 39.7 MBq). To localize the heart using D-SPECT, 99mTc-tetrofosmin (753 ± 133 MBq) was administered and dual isotope acquisition was performed using the D-SPECT system. HMR was calculated using both planar A-SPECT imaging and front view D-SPECT cine data. In a phantom study, we estimated a model fitting the A-SPECT and the D-SPECT data that was further applied to correct for differences between the cameras.

Results

A total of 44 patients (39 men and 5 women, aged 60 ± 11 years) with ischaemic (31 patients) and nonischaemic (13 patients) cardiomyopathy completed the study. Most patients (28 of 44) were NYHA class II, and the mean left ventricular ejection fraction was 33 ± 7 %. The mean HMR values were 1.34 ± 0.15 and 1.45 ± 0.27 from A-SPECT and D-SPECT, respectively (p < 0.0001). After correction, Lin’s concordance correlation showed an almost perfect concordance between corrected D-SPECT HMR and A-SPECT HMR, and Bland-Altman analysis demonstrated a high agreement between the two measurements.

Conclusion

The ADRECARD study demonstrated that determination of late HMR during cardiac MIBG imaging using dual isotope (123I and 99mTc) acquisition on a CZT camera (D-SPECT) is feasible in patients with heart failure. A linear correction based on the phantom study yielded a high agreement between 123I MIBG HMR obtained using a CZT camera and that from conventional planar imaging.

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Acknowledgment

We thank Mr. Thierry Georges for his technical assistance.

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This ADRECARD study was funded by GE Healthcare-France.

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All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the principles of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, CHU Côte de Nacre, Caen, France

    Dimitri Bellevre, Alain Manrique, Cédric Desmonts & Denis Agostini

  2. EA 4650, Normandie Université, Caen, France

    Alain Manrique, Damien Legallois, Tanguy Blaire, Alban Bailliez & Denis Agostini

  3. Cardiology Department, CHU Côte de Nacre, Caen, France

    Damien Legallois

  4. Spectrum Dynamics, Biosensors, Caesarea, Israel

    Samy Bross, Rafael Baavour & Nathaniel Roth

  5. Nuclear Medicine Department, IRIS, Polyclinique du Bois, Lille, France

    Tanguy Blaire & Alban Bailliez

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Bellevre, D., Manrique, A., Legallois, D. et al. First determination of the heart-to-mediastinum ratio using cardiac dual isotope (123I-MIBG/99mTc-tetrofosmin) CZT imaging in patients with heart failure: the ADRECARD study. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 42, 1912–1919 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-015-3141-3

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