Oxidative metabolism of the transplanted human heart assessed by positron emission tomography using C-11 acetate

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1503-1505

  Bengel, Frank M ^a   Ueberfuhr, Peter ^b   Nekolla, Stephan ^a   Ziegler, Sibylle I ^a   Reichart, Bruno ^b   Schwaiger, Markus ^a  

^a Nuklearmedizinische Klin P   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID C 11;

ADULT; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART MUSCLE METABOLISM; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR DISEASE;

CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HEART; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0033562826     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(99)00134-4     Document Type: Article

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