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18F-fluoromisonidazole (FMISO) PET may have the potential to detect cardiac sarcoidosis

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18F-fluoromisonidazole (FMISO) is a positron emission tomography (PET) tracer that accumulates in hypoxic tissues. We here present a case of suspected cardiac sarcoidosis which was detected with increased FMISO uptake.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Kita-15 Nishi-7, Kita-Ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-8638, Japan

    Osamu Manabe MD, PhD, Kenji Hirata MD, PhD, Okamoto Shozo MD, PhD, Tohru Shiga MD, PhD, Yuko Uchiyama MD, Kentaro Kobayashi MD, PhD, Shiro Watanabe MD, Takuya Toyonaga MD, Hisaya Kikuchi MD & Nagara Tamaki MD, PhD

  2. Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan

    Noriko Oyama-Manabe MD, PhD

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Manabe, O., Hirata, K., Shozo, O. et al. 18F-fluoromisonidazole (FMISO) PET may have the potential to detect cardiac sarcoidosis. J. Nucl. Cardiol. 24, 329–331 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-016-0495-2

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