Somatostatin Receptor Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in Giant Cell Myocarditis: A Promising Approach to Molecular Myocardial Inflammation Imaging

Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2022 Jan;15(1):e013551. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.121.013551. Epub 2021 Dec 28.

Christian L Polte^{1

2

3}, Entela Bollano^{4

3}, Anders Oldfors^{5

6}, Anna Dudás¹, Kerstin M Lagerstrand^{7

8}, Jakob Himmelman^{7

8}, Emanuele Bobbio^{4

3}, Kristjan Karason^{4

9

3}, Martijn van Essen¹, Niklas Bergh^{4

3}

¹ Departments of Clinical Physiology (C.L.P., A.D., M.v.E.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
² Radiology (C.L.P), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
³ Institutes of Medicine (C.L.P., E.B., E.B., K.K., N.B.), The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
⁴ Cardiology (E.B., E.B., K.K., N.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
⁵ Clinical pathology (A.O.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
⁶ Biomedicine (A.O.), The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
⁷ Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (K.M.L., J.H.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
⁸ Clinical Sciences (K.M.L., J.H.), The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
⁹ Transplantation (K.K.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Keywords: giant cells; magnetic resonance imaging; molecular imaging; myocarditis; positron emission tomography; somatostatin receptor.

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