Comprehensive evaluation of radionuclide techniques in differentiating dilated cardiomyopathy and ischemic cardiomyopathy

This study analyzed significanc of radionuclide technique in differentiating dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) from ischemic cardiomyoparthy (CAD-CM). The patients with DCM usually show mild perfusion abnormalities and do not have perfusion defects. Perfusion imaging and metabolic imaging is concordant in most patients and reduced wall motion is typically diffuse in DCM.The majority of patients with CAD-CM have perfusion defects and distributed as segmental. The perfusion imaging and metabolic imaging of patients with CAD-CM generally show mismatch and the wall motion abnormality is segmental.