Sympathetic reinnervation of cardiac allografts evaluated by 123I- MIBG imaging

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 911-916

  Estorch, Montserrat ^a   Campreciós, Marta ^b   Flotats, Albert ^b   Marí, Carina ^b   Bernà, Lluís ^b   Catafau, Ana María ^b   Ballester, Manel ^b   Narula, Jagat ^b   Carrió, Ignasi ^b  

^a HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

123I metaiodobenzylguanidine; Cardiac function; Graft vasculopathy; Heart transplantation; Sympathetic reinnervation

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 123;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; HEART INNERVATION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; REINNERVATION; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VASCULAR DISEASE;

3-IODOBENZYLGUANIDINE; ADULT; AGED; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE REGENERATION; RADIONUCLIDE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REST; STROKE VOLUME; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0033000546     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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