Assessment of left ventricular function: Comparison between radionuclide angiography and semiquantitative two-dimensional echocardiographic analysis

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1613-1618

  Gottsauner Wolf, Michael ^a   Schedlmayer Duit, Johanna ^a   Porenta, Gerold ^a   Gwechenberger, Marianne ^a   Huber, Kurt ^a   Glogar, Dietmar ^a   Probst, Peter ^a   Sochor, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Heart catheterization; Left ventricular function; Radionuclide angiography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM PERTECHNETATE TC 99M; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0030477175     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01249624     Document Type: Article

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