Cardiac positron emission tomography imaging with [11c]hydroxyephedrine, a specific tracer for sympathetic nerve endings, and its functional correlates in congestive heart failure

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 568-574

  Vesalainen, Risto K ^a,b   Pietilä, Mikko ^a,b   Tahvanainen, Kari U O ^c   Jartti, Tuomas ^a   Teräs, Mika ^b   Någren, Kjell ^b   Lehikoinen, Pertti ^b   Huupponen, Risto ^a   Ukkonen, Heikki ^a   Saraste, Markku ^a   Knuuti, Juhani ^b   Voipio Pulkki, Liisa Maria ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b TURKU PET CENTRE   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d Turku PET Centre ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CARBON 11; DIGITALIS; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; EPHEDRINE DERIVATIVE; HYDROXYEPHEDRINE C 11; METOPROLOL; NITRATE; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPINE POSITION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CORONARY CIRCULATION; EPHEDRINE; FEMALE; HEART; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE ENDINGS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PRESSORECEPTORS; REFERENCE VALUES; REFLEX; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SYMPATHOMIMETICS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0032818095     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(99)00379-3     Document Type: Article

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