Relation between myocardial response to dobutamine stress and sympathetic nerve activation in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: A comparison of 123I-MIBG scintigraphic and echocardiographic data

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 427-432

  Naruse, Hitoshi ^a,b   Arii, Tohru ^a   Kondo, Tomohiro ^a   Ohnishi, Makoto ^a   Sakaki, Takatoshi ^a   Takahashi, Keiko ^a   Masai, Miho ^a   Ohyanagi, Mitsumasa ^a   Iwasaki, Tadaaki ^a   Fukuchi, Minoru ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b First Department of Internal Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dobutamine stress echocardiography; Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 125; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; DOBUTAMINE; NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART DILATATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0034476795     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02988288     Document Type: Article

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