Abstract
In patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), myocardial involvement is the third leading course of death after lupus nephropathy (LN) and infections. Previous autopsy studies have demonstrated a high incidence of cardiovascular abnormalities in the myocardium. However, the patients with typical symptoms are far much fewer than expected from post-mortem examinations. The current study aimed to evaluate the technetium-99m-sestamibi (99mTc-MIBI) gated myocardial perfusion imaging (GMPI) characteristics of lupus patients without cardiovascular symptoms, and the relationships between GMPI characteristics and biochemical markers of myocardial injury, and to explore the role of GMPI in assessing myocardial involvement. Thirty patients were studied with rest myocardial perfusion imaging, and summed rest score (SRS), summed motion score (SMS), and summed thickening score (STS) were calculated automatically. Biomarkers, including N-terminal prohormone of brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) and creatine-kinase-MB (CK-MB), were detected simultaneously. GMPI parameters, LV functions and biomarkers were compared between two NT-proBNP groups. The relationships between these parameters were studied by correlation analysis. SMS, STS, and glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) were the main influencing factors of NTproBNP level (p = 0.001, <0.001, 0.042, respectively). Thirteen patients with an evaluated concentration of NT-proBNP had the lower left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), peak filling rate (PFR), eGFR and higher levels of CK-MB (in all comparisons, p < 0.05), and SRS was the only influencing factor of NT-proBNP (p = 0.007). Within thirteen patients with SRS≥2, there was a significant correlation between SRS and NT-proBNP (p < 0.001). 99mTc-MIBI GMPI could evaluate the left ventricular function and prompt the cardiomyocyte function at the cellular level. SMS and STS were the main influencers for plasma NT-proBNP, and SRS was the independent factor for elevated NT-proBNP. This radionuclide imaging method could provide additional diagnostic information on myocardial involvement in patients with SLE.
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