Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (SPECT) during adenosine stress can be performed safely early on after thrombolytic therapy in acute myocardial infarction

Clinical Physiology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 97-101

  Bouvier, F ^a   Hojer J ^a   Hulting, J ^a   Ruiz, H ^a   Samad, B ^a   Jensen Urstad, M ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM SÖDER HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Adenosine stress; Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy; Thrombolytic treatment

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SCINTIGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; THORAX PAIN;

ADENOSINE; AGED; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031960596     PISSN: 01445979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2281.1998.00079.x     Document Type: Article

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