Thallium scintigraphy compared with18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography for assessing myocardial viability in patients with moderate versus severe left ventricular dysfunction

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1001-1007

  Marin Neto, Jose A ^b   Dilsizian, Vasken ^b   Arrighi, James A ^b   Perrone Filardi, Pasquale ^b   Bacharach, Stephen L ^b   Bonow, Robert O ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; THALLIUM 201; WATER O 15;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL STUNNING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0031793467     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9149(98)00551-7     Document Type: Article

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