Detecting myocardial salvage after primary PTCA: Early myocardial contrast echocardiography versus delayed sestamibi perfusion imaging

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 363-370

  Sciagrà, Roberto ^a   Bolognese, Leonardo ^b   Rovai, Daniele ^b   Sestini, Stelvio ^b   Santoro, Giovanni M ^b   Cerisano, Giampaolo ^b   Marini, Cecilia ^b   Buonamici, Piergiovanni ^b   Antoniucci, David ^b   Fazzini, Pier Filippo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Myocardial contrast echocardiography; Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty; Sestamibi

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0033059286     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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