Sustained Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias are Associated With Increased 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Uptake Mimicking Cardiac Sarcoidosis

Sustained Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias are Associated With Increased ¹⁸F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Uptake Mimicking Cardiac Sarcoidosis

Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2024 Mar;17(3):e016316. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.123.016316. Epub 2024 Mar 8.

Boldizsar Kovacs^{1

2

3}, Andreas A Giannopoulos⁴, Frank Bogun², Aju P Pazhenkottil⁴, Nicole R Bonetti^{1

3}, Robert Manka^{1

5

6}, Argelia Medeiros-Domingo^{3

7}, Christiane Gruner^{1

3}, Dörthe Schmidt^{1

3}, Andreas J Flammer^{1

3}, Frank Ruschitzka^{1

3

8}, Firat Duru^{1

3

8}, Philipp A Kaufmann⁴, Ronny R Buechel⁴, Ardan M Saguner¹

¹ Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center (B.K., N.R.B., R.M., C.G., D.S., A.J.F., F.R., F.D., A.M.S.), University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.
² Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (B.K., F.B.).
³ Center for Translational and Experimental Cardiology (CTEC) (B.K., N.R.B., C.G., D.S., A.J.F., F.R., F.D., A.M.S.), University Zurich, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cardiac Imaging, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (A.A.G., A.P.P., P.A.K., R.R.B.).
⁵ Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology (R.M.), University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.
⁶ Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (R.M.).
⁷ Swiss DNAlysis, Dübendorf, Switzerland (A.M.-D.).
⁸ Center for Integrative Human Physiology (F.R., F.D.), University Zurich, Switzerland.

No abstract available

Keywords: cardiomyopathies; computed tomography; positron emission tomography; tachycardia, ventricular; ventricular fibrillation.