[Interesting PYP, 201Tl, MIBG, AM and BMIPP myocardial SPECT images in a patient under successful reperfusion therapy].

Various types of radiopharmacons such as 201Tl, 99mTc-pyrophosphate(PYP), 123I-metaiodobenzyl-guanidine(MIBG), 111In-antimyosin Fab (AM) and 123I-beta-methyl iodophenyl pentadecanoic acid (BMIPP) were applied to a patient under successful reperfusion therapy. In the patient, elevated serum enzyme activity region in the subacute phase. Ten months after the ischemic event, AM uptake was noted at the region which maintained contractility. Two years after the ischemic event, depressed BMIPP uptake and delayed washout were noted at the apical region and the basal anteroseptal region. From these findings, the following conclusions were reached. Depressed 201Tl uptake was noted in the salvaged jeopardized myocardium. The lesions noted in the MIBG images showed depressed myocardial norepenephrine activity. This suggested that depressed sympathetic nervous function caused by severe ischemia persisted long after both myocardial perfusion and myocardial contractility had been restored. From abnormal AM uptake in the contractile myocardium myocardial cell damage, which permitted AM uptake, was persistent ten months after the ischemic event. Depressed BMIPP uptake and delayed washout suggested that abnormal fatty acid metabolism caused by severe ischemia was persistent. Severe ischemia caused various types of pathological states in the myocardium and radioisotope image was useful for studying these states.