123I-MIBG SPECT/CT for Assessment of Cardiac Sympathetic Innervation

Rambam Health Care Campus

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cardiac Diseases

Treatments: Device: SPECT/CT

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00296738

MIBGCTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

Myocardial scintigraphy with 123I-MIBG allows for visual and semi-quantitative assessment of sympathetic cardiac innervation using the hear to mediastinum ratio (HMR). Impaired cardiac MIBG clearance may occur in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). The purpose of present study was to develop and validate a quantitative index for the assessment of cardiac MIBG uptake kinetics using SPECT/CT for diagnosis of CHF

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age>40

Exclusion criteria

• none