1. 18F-FDG PET/CT in a Patient With Glomus Vagale Paraganglioma and Eisenmenger Syndrome: Searching for the Missing Link?
- Author
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Hsu CC, Singh D, Kwan GN, and Bhuta S
- Subjects
- Eisenmenger Complex complications, Female, Fluorodeoxyglucose F18, Humans, Middle Aged, Multimodal Imaging, Paraganglioma, Extra-Adrenal complications, Pheochromocytoma complications, Radiopharmaceuticals, Adrenal Gland Neoplasms diagnostic imaging, Aortic Bodies diagnostic imaging, Eisenmenger Complex diagnostic imaging, Paraganglioma, Extra-Adrenal diagnostic imaging, Pheochromocytoma diagnostic imaging, Positron-Emission Tomography, Tomography, X-Ray Computed
- Abstract
There is emerging evidence linking cyanotic heart disease and pheochromocytoma-paraganglioma through a proposed hypoxia pathway. We present a 59-year-old woman with known Eisenmenger syndrome secondary to delayed diagnosis of ventricular septal defect, in whom F-FDG PET/CT provided comprehensive evaluation of both an F-FDG-avid left glomus vagale paraganglioma and also increased right ventricular myocardial glucose metabolism in response to severe pulmonary hypertension in the chronic shunting state.
- Published
- 2016
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