High 18F-FDG uptake in a systemic right ventricle after atrial switch

Clin Nucl Med. 2015 May;40(5):448-9. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000000675.

Abstract

A 21-year-old patient with a D-transposition of the great arteries and a single coronary ostium underwent an atrial switch operation as newborn (Senning correction at 6 days of life in 1992). For an unrelated oncological evaluation, she underwent a recent F-FDG PET/CT. The myocardial uptake was clearly more intense in the morphological right ventricle, as this ventricle has become the systemic ventricle. On the contrary, the morphological left ventricle showed a very faint FDG uptake. This case illustrates the physiological changes related to a previous cardiac surgery.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cardiac Surgical Procedures / adverse effects*
  • False Positive Reactions
  • Female
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18*
  • Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging*
  • Heart Ventricles / surgery
  • Humans
  • Multimodal Imaging
  • Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Positron-Emission Tomography
  • Radiopharmaceuticals*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Young Adult

Substances

  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18