Quantitative thallium-201 and technetium 99m sestamibi tomography at rest in detection of myocardial viability in patients with chronic ischemic left ventricular dysfunction

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 8-15

  Cuocolo, Alberto ^a,c   Acampa, Wanda ^a   Nicolai, Emanuele ^a   Pace, Leonardo ^a   Petretta, Mario ^b   Salvatore, Marco ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Institute of Internal Medicine   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Myocardial infarction; Myocardial viability; Perfusion imaging

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RADIOISOTOPE; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REST; STATISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034002946     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mnc.2000.100706     Document Type: Article

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