Assessment of myocardial reinnervation in cardiac transplants by positron emission tomography: Functional significance tested by heart rate variability

Clinical Science

Volumn 91, Issue S1, 1996, Pages 126-128

  Ziegler, Sibylle I ^a   Frey, Axel W ^b   überfuhr, Peier ^c   Dambacher, Martin ^b   Watzlowik, Petra ^a   Nekolla, Szephan ^a   Weland, Donald M ^d   Reichart, Bruno ^c   Schwaiger, Markus ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Hetz Zentrum   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE ENDING; NOTE; PET SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG ACCUMULATION; DRUG UPTAKE; HEART GRAFT; HEART MUSCLE; HEART RATE; HEART SCINTISCANNING; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

CARBON 11; CATECHOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; EPHEDRINE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPHEDRINE; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0030012958     PISSN: 01435221     EISSN: 14708736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/cs0910126supp     Document Type: Note

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