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Table 7 Blood sample data

From: Which is the proper reference tissue for measuring the change in FDG PET metabolic volume of cardiac sarcoidosis before and after steroid therapy?

 

First scan (pre-steroid therapy)

Second scan (during-steroid therapy)

p value

FBS (mg/dl)

90.8 ± 12.6

108.7 ± 22.6

< 0.0001

FDG dosage (MBq/kg)

4.4 ± 0.3

4.6 ± 0.5

0.10

AST (U/l)

24.0 ± 8.8

21.3 ± 8.4

0.19

ALT (U/l)

19.1 ± 10.1

33.1 ± 21.1

0.0004

γ-GTP (U/l)

30.8 ± 22.9

41.1 ± 24.0

0.06

  1. FBS fasting blood sugar, FDG 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose, AST aspartate aminotransferase, ALT alanine aminotransferase, γ-GTP γ-glutamyltranspeptidase