False-positive defects in technetium-99m sestamibi myocardial single-photon emission tomography in healthy athletes with left ventricular hypertrophy

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1308-1312

  Bartram, Peter ^a   Toft, Jens ^a,b   Hanel, Birgitte ^a   Ali, Samir ^b   Gustafsson, Finn ^a   Mortensen, Jann ^a   Hesse, Birger ^a  

^a Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Athletes; Cardiac imaging; Left ventricular hypertrophy; Myocardial single photon emission tomography

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPORTS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031668608     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002590050300     Document Type: Article

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