Perfusion and functional abnormalities outside the septal region in patients with left bundle branch block assessed with gated SPECT

Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 108-114

  Bavelaar Croon, C D L ^a   Wahba, F F M F ^a   Van Hecke, M V ^a   Atsma, D E ^a   Stokkel, M P M ^a   Pauwels, E K J ^a   Van Der Wall, E E ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bundle branch block; Gated blood pool imaging; Heart radionuclide imaging; Tomography emission computed, single photon; Ventricular function, left

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GATED IMAGING; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; MALE; SCINTIGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART SEPTUM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0034954481     PISSN: 11243937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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