Successful Bridge-to-Recovery Treatment in a Young Patient with Fulminant Eosinophilic Myocarditis: Roles of a Percutaneous Ventricular Assist Device and Endomyocardial Biopsy

Figure 5

Thallium-201 and iodine-123 β-methyl-p-iodophenylpentadecanoic acid dual-tracer myocardial scintigraphy 3 weeks after admission. Slight patchy deficit was found for myocardial thallium uptake in the anterolateral wall and further decreased uptake of BMIPP, which was consistent with a mild perfusion-metabolism mismatch (white arrows). (a) Long-axis 2D view. (b) Short axis 2D view. (c) Polar map. 2D, two-dimensional; ANT, anterior; INF, inferior; TL, thallium.