Does motion analysis in postexercise gated sestamibi SPECT reflect rest left ventricular motion even in severe coronary artery disease?

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 694-700

  Leitha, Thomas ^a   Gwechenberger, Marianne ^a   Pruckmayer, Martha ^a   Staudenherz, Anton ^a   Bailer, Hartwig ^b   Kronik, Gerhard ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien   (Austria)

Author keywords

Gated SPECT; Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction; Technetium 99m Sestamibi; Wall Motion

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; RADIOISOTOPE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROBABILITY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE VOLUME; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0034925343     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-200108000-00007     Document Type: Article

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