Comparison between low-dose dobutamine echocardiography and thallium-201 scintigraphy in the detection of myocardial viability in patients with recent myocardial infarction

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 213-223

  Anselmi, Maurizio ^a   Golia, Giorgio ^a   Maines, Massimiliano ^a   Marino, Paolo ^a   Goj, Carlo ^a   Turri, Marco ^a   Cavaggioni, Marco ^a   Braggio, Paolo ^a   Giorgetti, Pier Giorgio ^a   Zardini, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dobutamine echocardiography; Myocardial infarction; Myocardial viability; Radionuclide imaging

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; THALLIUM 201;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; DOBUTAMINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 0034737947     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5273(00)00215-1     Document Type: Article

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