Cardiac sympathetic innervation in patients with idiopathic right ventricular outflow tract tachycardia

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 181-186

  Schäfers, Michael ^a,b   Lerch, Hartmut ^a   Wichter, Thomas ^a   Rhodes, Christopher G ^b   Lammertsma, Adriaan A ^b   Borggrefe, Martin ^a   Hermansen, Flemming ^b   Schober, Otmar ^a   Breithardt, Günter ^a   Camici, Paolo G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYEPHEDRINE; 4 (3 TERT BUTYLAMINO 2 HYDROXYPROPOXY) 2 BENZIMIDAZOLONE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CATECHOLAMINE; NORADRENALIN; OXYGEN 15;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BINDING; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; TACHYCARDIA;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSPLASIA; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DOWN-REGULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOREPINEPHRINE; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0032126066     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00213-7     Document Type: Article

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