Long-term prognostic value of stress-redistribution-reinjection Tl-201 imaging in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction and coronary artery bypass surgery

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 125-133

  Gürsürer, Metin ^a,b   Emre, Ayşe ^a   Gerçekoǧlu, Hakan ^a   Uslubaş, Seyfi ^a   Aksoy, Mehmet ^a   Ersek, Birsen ^a  

^a DR SIYAMI ERSEK THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b ZONGULDAK KARAELMAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Left ventricular dysfunction; Prognosis; Radionuclide imaging; Revascularization; Viability

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; THALLIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; SCINTISCANNING; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FOLLOW UP; HEART; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL; TIME;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0035985801     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 18758312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014654822287     Document Type: Article

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