99mTc tetrofosmin cardiac tomography after nitrate administration in patients with coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction;Tomografia cardiaca con 99mTc tetrofosmina dopo somministrazione di nitrati in pazienti con cardiopatia ischemica e disfunzione ventricolare sinistra

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 258-263

  Menna, Francesco ^a   Acampa, Wanda ^a   Florimonte, Luigia ^a   Ferro, Adele ^a   Borrelli, Giovanni ^a   Mainolfi, Ciro ^a   Cuocolo, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Heart, left ventricular dysfunction; Heart, myocardial scintigraphy; Heart, myocardial viability; Heart, tetrofosmin imaging

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; NITRATE; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TECHNETIUM COMPLEX; TECHNETIUM TC 99M 1,2 BIS(BIS(2 ETHOXYETHYL)PHOSPHINO)ETHANE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M 1,2-BIS(BIS(2-ETHOXYETHYL)PHOSPHINO)ETHANE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRUG UPTAKE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; HEART; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEMODYNAMICS; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; STATISTICS; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; HEART; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NITROGLYCERIN; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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