Prediction of improvement in global left ventricular function in patients with chronic coronary artery disease and impaired left ventricular function: Rest thallium-201 SPET versus low-dose dobutamine echocardiography

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1740-1746

  Pace, Leonardo ^a   Perrone Filardi, Pasquale ^a   Storto, Giovanni ^a   Della Morte, Anna Maria ^a   Dellegrottaglie, Santo ^a   Prastaro, Mariella ^a   Crisci, Teresa ^a   Ponticelli, Maria Paola ^a   Piscione, Federico ^a   Chiariello, Massimo ^a   Salvatore, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dobutamine echocardiography; Myocardial revascularization; Thallium 201; Viable myocardium

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; REST; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY DISEASE; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; STROKE VOLUME; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0033638382     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002590000374     Document Type: Article

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