Sustained Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias are Associated With Increased ¹⁸F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Uptake Mimicking Cardiac Sarcoidosis

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center (B.K., N.R.B., R.M., C.G., D.S., A.J.F., F.R., F.D., A.M.S.), University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.
• ² Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (B.K., F.B.).
• ³ Center for Translational and Experimental Cardiology (CTEC) (B.K., N.R.B., C.G., D.S., A.J.F., F.R., F.D., A.M.S.), University Zurich, Switzerland.
• ⁴ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cardiac Imaging, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (A.A.G., A.P.P., P.A.K., R.R.B.).
• ⁵ Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology (R.M.), University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.
• ⁶ Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (R.M.).
• ⁷ Swiss DNAlysis, Dübendorf, Switzerland (A.M.-D.).
• ⁸ Center for Integrative Human Physiology (F.R., F.D.), University Zurich, Switzerland.