Post-stress end-systolic left ventricular dilation: A marker of endocardial post-ischemic stunning

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 685-693

  Bestetti, A ^a   Di Leo, C ^a   Alessi, A ^a   Triulzi, A ^a   Tagliabue, L ^a   Tarolo, G L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gated SPECT; Post ischemic stunning; Transient dilation ratio

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART DILATATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUNNED HEART MUSCLE; SYSTOLE;

AGED; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL STUNNING; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; STROKE VOLUME; THALLIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VASODILATION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0034975740     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200106000-00013     Document Type: Review

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