Sophia Koukouraki, Nikolaos Kapsoritakis, Olga Bourogianni, Maria Stathaki, Ioannis Zaganas, Alexandros Patrianakos, Anthi Plevritaki, Dafni Korela, Maria Marketou, Emmanouil Foukarakis
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Single photon emission computed tomography/CT SUV quantitative parameters, of the heart, myocardium, lungs, liver, soft tissues, bone, and SUV ratios (SUV<sub>max</sub>myo, SUV<sub>max</sub>lungs, SUV<sub>max</sub>liver, SUV<sub>max</sub>bone and SUV<sub>max</sub>soft tissue ratios), were evaluated in order to investigate potential metrics that could more clearly differentiate Perugini grades.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 33.7% of patients were considered grade 0, 34.6% grade 1 and 31.7% grade 2/3. A combination of H/CL >1.33 and H/Bone >0.85 showed the highest sensitivity 100%. Standardized uptake value-based metrics clearly differentiated grade 0 or 1 vs grades 2 or 3, whereas no significant difference was found between grades 0 and 1, or between grades 1 and 2. The combined cut-off values H/CL 1.33 and SUV<sub>max</sub>myo 2.88 yielded 100% sensitivity and 84.6% specificity in differentiating ATTR-CA positives vs negatives. 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SPECT/CT SUV-based metrics: A promising diagnostic tool in classifying patients with suspected transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis among the different Perugini grades?
Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the contribution of single photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) standardized uptake value (SUV) metrics in classifying patients with suspected transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR-CA) among the different Perugini grades.
Subjects and methods: One hundred four patients suspected of ATTR-CA underwent planar scintigraphy with bone seeking tracer (99mTc pyrophosphate-PYP). Patients were classified according to the Perugini scale, the H/CL, H/Bone and H/Bkg ratios. A subset of 48 patients received additional SPECT/CT. Single photon emission computed tomography/CT SUV quantitative parameters, of the heart, myocardium, lungs, liver, soft tissues, bone, and SUV ratios (SUVmaxmyo, SUVmaxlungs, SUVmaxliver, SUVmaxbone and SUVmaxsoft tissue ratios), were evaluated in order to investigate potential metrics that could more clearly differentiate Perugini grades.
Results: A total of 33.7% of patients were considered grade 0, 34.6% grade 1 and 31.7% grade 2/3. A combination of H/CL >1.33 and H/Bone >0.85 showed the highest sensitivity 100%. Standardized uptake value-based metrics clearly differentiated grade 0 or 1 vs grades 2 or 3, whereas no significant difference was found between grades 0 and 1, or between grades 1 and 2. The combined cut-off values H/CL 1.33 and SUVmaxmyo 2.88 yielded 100% sensitivity and 84.6% specificity in differentiating ATTR-CA positives vs negatives. The metric SUVmaxmyo/SUVmaxliver was the best metric to classify patients with grade 1 as negative (grade 0) or positive (grade 2 or 3).
Conclusion: Single photon emission computed tomography/CT SUV metrics could be complementary to planar scintigraphy in classifying patients among the different Perugini grades. The ratio SUVmaxmyo/SUVmaxliver was the only parameter with high affinity to differentiate patients with grade 1, as grade 0 or grade 2/3 for ATTR-CA.
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