Decreased Post-Myocardial Infarction Heart Rate Variability and Cardiac Denervation Assessed by Metaiodobenzylguanidine Scintigraphy

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 482-486

  Livanis, Efthimios G ^a   Flevari, Panagiota G ^a   Theodorakis, George N ^a   Vassilopoulos, Nikolaos G ^a   Kremastinos, Dimitrios Th ^a  

^a ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; IODOBENZENE; THALLIUM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPATHECTOMY;

3-IODOBENZYLGUANIDINE; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IODOBENZENES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPATHOLYTICS; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031568557     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(96)00789-8     Document Type: Article

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