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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Nucl Cardiol. 2019 Jun 24;27(3):849–861. doi: 10.1007/s12350-019-01786-w

Table 3.

Distribution and patterns of myocardial FDG uptake

Myocardial FDN uptake patterns
N (%)

No uptake Focal Focal on diffuse Diffuse

All scans (111) 52 (46.8%) 52 (46.8%) 4 (3.6%) 3 (2.7%)
Diagnostic scans (106) 52 (49.1%) 52 (49.1%) 2 (1.8%) 0
Non-diagnostic scans (5) 0 0 2 (40%) 3 (60%)
Diabetes mellitus (31) 19 (61.3%) 11 (35.5%) 1 (3.2%) 0
LVEF > 35% (86) 41 (47.7%) 39 (45.3%) 3 (3.5%) 3 (3.5%)
LVEF ≤ 35% (25) 11 (44%) 13 (52%) 1 (4%) 0