Inhomogeneity of myocardial perfusion in heart transplant recipients: Evaluation with dobutamine thallium-201 spect

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1015-1019

  Yen, R F ^a   Ho, Y L ^a   Chou, N K ^a   Hsu, R B ^a   Huang, P J ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dobutamine; Heart transplantation; Myocardial perfusion; SPECT; Thallium 201

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DOBUTAMINE; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034864093     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200109000-00011     Document Type: Review

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