Effect of silicone breast implants on myocardial imaging.
Ann Plast Surg
; 43(5): 471-5, 1999 Nov.
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ABSTRACT
The authors investigated the effect of silicone breast implants (SBIs) on thallium-201 myocardial perfusion scintigraphy. Twenty-nine patients with SBIs and 14 control subjects were included in the study. All of the participants underwent a resting thallium-201 myocardial perfusion study. Comparison of the thallium images between patients with SBI and control subjects was done both visually and semiquantitatively. On visual analysis, neither image distortion nor image artifact attributable to the SBIs was noted. Semiquantitative analysis revealed that in patients with SBIs, the uptake values of the anteroseptal, anterolateral, lateroanterior, and lateroinferior myocardial walls was slightly, but significantly, lower than those of control subjects:
anteroseptal, 87.7+/-6.0% vs. 92.8+/-5.1%; anterolateral, 88.0+/-5% vs. 92.6+/-4.5%; lateroanterior, 87.4+/-5% vs. 91.4+/-4.7%; and lateroinferior, 86.0+/-6.0% vs. 91.7+/-7.0%. The uptake value of the remaining walls in patients with SBIs were not significantly different than the control subjects. In conclusion, SBIs did cause a significant decrease in uptake values of the myocardial walls, which should be considered during interpretation of the images.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Elastómeros de Silicona
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Interpretación de Imagen Asistida por Computador
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Implantes de Mama
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Corazón
Límite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Ann Plast Surg
Año:
1999
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Turquía