Sympathetic reinnervation demonstrated on serial iodine- 123- metaiodobenzylguanidine SPECT images after cardiac transplantation

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1862-1864

  Toba, Masahiro ^a   Ishida, Yoshio ^a   Fukuchi, Kazuki ^a   Shimotsu, Yoriko ^a   Takamiya, Makoto ^a   Komamura, Kazuo ^a   Nakatani, Takeshi ^a   Ohuchi, Hideo ^a   Ono, Yasuo ^a   Kamiya, Tetsurou ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac transplantation; Iodine 123 metaiodobenzylguanidine; Sympathetic reinnervation

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 123;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

3-IODOBENZYLGUANIDINE; ADULT; EXERCISE TEST; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031796683     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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