PMC4647125_01
79-year-old male with a large anterior STEMI due to a single vessel disease (left anterior descending coronary artery) was treated after 4 h with coronary angioplasty and bare metal stent. MIBG scintigraphic tetrofosmin myocardial scintigraphy at rest and the I23I-iobenguane (MIBG) myocardial scintigraphy performed after 15 days show a severe reduction of the tracer uptake in the anterior wall, apex, infero-apical and latero-apical segments demonstrating, as usual, a larger defect in the sympathetic innervations in comparison with the perfusion defect (upper series). The white arrows point to the larger defect of the uptake of MIBG versus 99mTc-tetrofosmin myocardial scintigraphy in the different left ventricle segments. An enlargement of the left ventricle is also seen.
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A 99mTc-tetrofosmin myocardial scintigraphy at rest and an I23I-iobenguane (MIBG) myocardial scintigraphy was performed within 15 days after angioplasty [Figure 1].