ArticleEuropean journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging2019
FDG atrial uptake is associated with an increased prevalence of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation.
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- Increased Right Atrial FDG Uptake in Persistent Atrial Fibrillation: Insights Across Young vs. Old Age Groups.Korean circulation journal · 2026Article
- 2025 THRS Expert Consensus of Imaging Assessment in Atrial Fibrillation.Acta Cardiologica Sinica · 2025Article
- Atrial FDG uptake and atrial fibrillation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Heart rhythm O2 · 2025Article
- Atrial FDG Uptake: Etiologies, Clinical Significance, and Implications.Current cardiology reports · 2025Review
- Unanticipated Biatrial 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) Uptake in Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma Surveillance PET/CT.Cureus · 2024Article
- The relationship between right atrial wall inflammation and poor prognosis of atrial fibrillation based onQuantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024Article
- Right atrial wall inflammation detected byBMC cardiovascular disorders · 2023Article
- Stroke and molecular imaging: a focus on FDG-PET.American journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2023Review
- Right Atrial Fluorodeoxyglucose Uptake Is a Risk Factor for Stroke and Improves Prediction of Stroke Above the CHAFrontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Article
- Imaging and biophysical modelling of thrombogenic mechanisms in atrial fibrillation and stroke.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Review
- Series of myocardial FDG uptake requiring considerations of myocardial abnormalities in FDG-PET/CT.Japanese journal of radiology · 2021Review
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- Positron Emission Tomography After Ischemic Brain Injury: Current Challenges and Future Developments.Translational stroke research · 2020Review
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Abstract
purposeAtrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia and is associated with an increased risk of stroke. Indeed, silent AF is frequently identified in unexplained ischemic stroke.
methodsWe retrospectively enrolled 128 patients (64 consecutive patients with AF and 64 without AF as the control group, matched for age and sex) who underwent
resultsDiffuse right atrial uptake was present in a third of patients with AF and only two patients in the control group. FDG uptake intensity of both atria was significantly associated with the underlying heart rhythm. The occurrence of stroke was strongly associated with detectable atrial uptake in multivariate analysis, with an odds ratio superior to that of other known risk factors.
conclusionsThis study shows a significant correlation between FDG atrial uptake and AF. While inconsistent, this pattern seems to be associated with an increased prevalence of cardioembolic stroke.
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