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. 2023 Jan-Mar;38(1):69-70.
doi: 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_134_22. Epub 2023 Feb 24.

Imaging Acute Myocarditis with 68Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT

Jasim Jaleel  1 , Chetan D Patel  1 , Khangembam Bangkim Chandra  1 , Sivasubramanian Ramakrishnan  2 , Sandeep Seth  2
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Imaging Acute Myocarditis with 68Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT

Jasim Jaleel et al. Indian J Nucl Med. 2023 Jan-Mar.

Abstract

Somatostatin receptor (SSTR) imaging is a useful method in the diagnosis of acute myocarditis. We present a case of a 54-year-old male with a clinical diagnosis of acute myocarditis in whom, 68Ga-DOTANOC positron emission tomography/computed tomography PET/CT showed diffuse left ventricular myocardial uptake. SSTR imaging can act as a surrogate marker of active inflammation. SSTR imaging is useful in deciding site of biopsy, assessing response to therapy and for prognostication.

Keywords: DOTANOC; myocarditis; positron emission tomography/computed tomography; somatostatin receptor.

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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Axial CT (a), PET (b), and fused PET/CT (c) images showed diffuse heterogeneously increased tracer uptake in the entire left ventricular myocardium. Conventional slices of short axis (left panel), vertical long axis (middle panel), and horizontal long axis (right panel) showed a small perfusion defect in distal inferior wall on 99mTc-MIBI perfusion study (d1) and diffuse radiotracer uptake in the left ventricular myocardium on 68Ga-DOTANOC PET (d2). PET: Positron emission tomography, CT: Computed tomography
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