Assessment of ampulla (Takotsubo) cardiomyopathy with coronary angiography, two-dimensional echocardiography and99mTc-tetrofosmin myocardial single photon emission computed tomography

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 351-355

  Ito, Kazuki ^a   Sugihara, Hiroki ^b   Kawasaki, Tatsuya ^b   Yuba, Tatsuya ^a   Doue, Tomoki ^a   Tanabe, Takuji ^a   Adachi, Yoshihiko ^a   Katoh, Shuji ^a   Azuma, Akihiro ^b   Nakagawa, Masao ^b  

^a ASAHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

99mTc tetrofosmin; Ampulla (Takotsubo) cardiomyopathy; Microvascular spasm; Nicorandil

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE MB; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; NICORANDIL; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VASOSPASM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034789891     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02988242     Document Type: Article

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