Incremental prognostic value of thallium reinjection after stress- redistribution imaging in patients with previous myocardial infarction and left ventricular dysfunction

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 195-200

  Petretta, Mario ^a   Cuocolo, Alberto ^a   Bonaduce, Domenico ^a   Nicolai, Emanuele ^a   Cardei, Stefania ^a   Berardino, Sabino ^a   Ianniciello, Angiolino ^a   Apicella, Claudio ^a   Bianchi, Valter ^a   Salvatore, Marco ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

left ventricular dysfunction; myocardial infarction; thallium reinjection imaging; viable myocardium

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0031039037     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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