The Philippine Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2012;7(1):6-10

Prospective study on the effectiveness of different diet protocols in decreasing interfering abdominal activity among Filipinos undergoing 99mTc tetrofosmin resting myocardial perfusion imaging study

Aldovino Sheila Rose B

Country

Philippines

Language

English

Abstract

Myocardial perfusion imaging is one of the common diagnostic modalities used today for non-invasive diagnosis and evaluation of ischemia and myocardial infarction. However, this study may be time consuming due to delays mostly caused by diaphragmatic and intraabdominal artifacts. In this study, the effectiveness of different diets given to 120 patients pre-resting scan were evaluated through heart to liver ratio. Results showed that chocolate milk (H:L= 1.35 plus minus 0.28) is superior to water (H:L = 0.98 plus minus 0.32), null (H:L = 0.95 plus minus 0.39) and milk diet (H:L = 0.95 plus minus 0.27). However, lemon juice (H:L =1.14 plus minus 0.40) and milk with water (H:L = 1.16 plus minus 0.24) has no significant difference in effect with chocolate milk group. Thus patient may be given the choice of taking lemon juice, chocolate milk, or milk with water. This will help give good quality images while decreasing the waiting time of the patient.