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| Title |
Cardiac sympathetic neuronal damage precedes myocardial fibrosis in patients with Anderson-Fabry disease
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| Published in |
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, July 2017
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00259-017-3778-1 |
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| Authors |
Massimo Imbriaco, Teresa Pellegrino, Valentina Piscopo, Mario Petretta, Andrea Ponsiglione, Carmela Nappi, Marta Puglia, Serena Dell’Aversana, Eleonora Riccio, Letizia Spinelli, Antonio Pisani, Alberto Cuocolo |
| Abstract |
Cardiac sympathetic denervation may be detectable in patients with Anderson-Fabry disease (AFD), suggesting its usefulness for early detection of the disease. However, the relationship between sympathetic neuronal damage measured by (123)I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) imaging with myocardial fibrosis on cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is still unclear. Cardiac sympathetic innervation was assessed by (123)I-MIBG single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in 25 patients with genetically proved AFD. Within one month from MIBG imaging, all patients underwent contrast-enhanced CMR. MIBG defect size and fibrosis size on CMR were measured for the left ventricle (LV) and expressed as %LV. Patients were divided into three groups according to MIBG and CMR findings: (1) matched normal, without MIBG defects and without fibrosis on CMR (n = 10); (2) unmatched, with MIBG defect but without fibrosis (n = 5); and (3) matched abnormal, with MIBG defect and fibrosis (n = 10). The three groups did not differ with respect to age, gender, α-galactosidase, proteinuria, glomerular filtration rate, and troponin I, while New York Heart Association class (p = 0.008), LV hypertrophy (p = 0.05), and enzyme replacement therapy (p = 0.02) were different among groups. Although in patients with matched abnormal findings, there was a significant correlation between MIBG defect size and area of fibrosis at CMR (r(2) = 0.98, p < 0.001), MIBG defect size was larger than fibrosis size (26 ± 23 vs. 18 ± 13%LV, p = 0.02). Sympathetic neuronal damage is frequent in AFD patients, and it may precede myocardial damage, such as fibrosis. Thus, (123)I-MIBG imaging can be considered a challenging technique for early detection of cardiac involvement in AFD. |
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| United Kingdom | 1 | 100% |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 27 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 19% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 4 | 15% |
| Researcher | 4 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 2 | 7% |
| Professor | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 2 | 7% |
| Unknown | 9 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 44% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 4% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 4% |
| Engineering | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 12 | 44% |
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