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. 2016 Oct 21;7(47):77807–77814. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.12799

Figure 1. Display of a patient with active myocardial sarcoidosis.

Figure 1

Consistency of 68Ga-DOTATOC-PET and CMR Display of transaxial 68Ga-DOTATOC-PET (A., color bar indicating standardized uptake values), fused PET/CT B., short-axis late gadolinium enhanced (LGE) (C., insert: corresponding PET slice), and short-axis T2-weighted CMR D. slices in a 42-year-old woman (patient #8) with multi-organ sarcoidosis. PET presents enhanced tracer uptake in large portions of the left ventricle, highly consistent with cardiac involvement of sarcoidosis. CMR yields corresponding results. Of note, the patient experienced sustained ventricular tachyarrhythmia with subsequent cardiogenic shock five days after somatostatin-directed imaging requiring mechanical circulatory support with a percutaneous microaxial blood pump and veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.