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To determine the role of scintigraphy in the detection of skeletal and cardiac involvement in dermato-and polymyositis (DM/PM), we studied 30 patients with a confirmed diagnosis of DM/PM (23 females, 7 males; mean age: 35 years). Technetium-99m pyrophosphate (99mTc-PYP) and gallium-67 scans showed similar sensitivity, specificity and accuracy in the detection of skeletal muscle involvement when compared with serum enzymes (70%, 100% and 80%, respectively). Compared with the clinical parameters,99mTc-PYP showed 70% and67Ga 65% accuracy. Abnormal PYP cardiac uptake was observed in 57% of patients, whereas abnormal67Ga cardiac uptake was seen in only 15%. Electrocardiography was abnormal in 40%, rest gated blood pool study in 23%, and chest X-ray in 13%. In conclusion, both99mTc-PYP and67Ga can be useful in the detection of the active phase of muscle disease. However,99mTc-PYP seems to be more effective than67Ga in the early diagnosis of cardiac involvement.
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Buchpiguel, C.A., Roizemblatt, S., Pastor, E.H. et al. Cardiac and skeletal muscle scintigraphy in dermato- and polymyositis: Clinical implications. Eur J Nucl Med 23, 199–203 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01731845
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