The role of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the differential diagnosis of pericardial disease

This study aimed to assess the role of 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography ( 18 FDG-PET/CT) in the differential diagnosis of pericardial disease. The diagnosis is often troublesome because pericardial fluid analysis or biopsy does not always provide answers. 18 F...

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Veröffentlicht in:Scientific reports 2020-12, Vol.10 (1), p.21524-21524, Article 21524
Hauptverfasser: Hyeon, Cheol Won, Yi, Hyun Kyung, Kim, Eun Kyoung, Park, Sung-Ji, Lee, Sang-Chol, Park, Seung Woo, Oh, Jae K., Choi, Joon Young, Chang, Sung-A
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Zusammenfassung:This study aimed to assess the role of 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography ( 18 FDG-PET/CT) in the differential diagnosis of pericardial disease. The diagnosis is often troublesome because pericardial fluid analysis or biopsy does not always provide answers. 18 FDG-PET/CT can visualize both inflammation and malignancy and offers a whole-body assessment. Patients who visited the Pericardial Disease Clinic of Samsung Medical Center with an 18 FDG-PET/CT order code were extracted. Exclusion criteria were as follows: (1) the purpose of the differential diagnosis was not pericardial disease; (2) the patient had a known advanced-stage malignancy; (3) the patient already have confirmative diagnosis using a serology, pericardial effusion analysis or biopsy. The analysis included 107 patients. The most common final diagnosis was idiopathic (n = 46, 43.0%), followed by tuberculosis (n = 30, 28.0%) and neoplastic (n = 11, 10.3%). A maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) ≥ 5 typically indicates tuberculosis or neoplastic pericarditis except in just one case of autoimmune pericarditis); especially all of the SUVmax scores ≥ 10 had tuberculosis. The diagnostic yield of pericardial biopsy was very low (10.2%). Interestingly, all of the pericardium with an SUVmax 
ISSN:2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-020-78581-y