Myocardial viability: Recent developments in detection and clinical significance

Current Opinion in Cardiology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 277-281

  Mazur, Wojciech ^a   Nagueh, Sherif F ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Section of Cardiology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; FIBRONECTIN; GLYCOGEN; THALLIUM; VIMENTIN;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBROSIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HIBERNATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MYOCARDIAL HIBERNATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CELL SURVIVAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034791414     PISSN: 02684705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001573-200109000-00004     Document Type: Review

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