Significance of rest technetium-99m sestamibi imaging for the prediction of improvement of left ventricular dysfunction after Q wave myocardial infarction: Importance of infarct location adjusted thresholds

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 648-654

  Schneider, Christian A ^a   Voth, Eberhard ^b   Gawlich, Sybille ^a   Baer, Frank M ^a   Horst, Michael ^c   Schicha, Harald ^b   Erdmann, Erland ^a   Sechtem, Udo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c Klin Poliklin Herz T   (Germany)

^d ROBERT BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; NITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q WAVE; SCINTIGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; STROKE VOLUME; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TISSUE SURVIVAL; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0031671360     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00291-5     Document Type: Article

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