A low perfusion-metabolic mismatch in 99m Tl and 123 I-BMIPP scintigraphy predicts poor prognosis in systemic sclerosis patients with asymptomatic cardiac involvement.
Harunobu IidaHironari HanaokaYukinori OkadaTomofumi KiyokawaYukiko TakakuwaHidehiro YamadaTakahiro OkazakiShoichi OzakiKenichiro YamaguchiYasuo NakajimaKimito KawahataPublished in: International journal of rheumatic diseases (2019)
Low mismatch score in cardiac scintigraphy was associated with cardiac death or cardiac failure in SSc patients.
Keyphrases
- systemic sclerosis
- poor prognosis
- left ventricular
- end stage renal disease
- interstitial lung disease
- long non coding rna
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- heart failure
- peritoneal dialysis
- magnetic resonance imaging
- computed tomography
- prognostic factors
- patient reported outcomes
- magnetic resonance
- atrial fibrillation