Reason for discrepancies in identifying myocardial viability by thallium-201 redistribution, magnetic resonance imaging, and dobutamine echocardiography

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 455-459

  Zamorano, José ^a,b   Delgado, Juan ^a   Almería, Carlos ^a   Moreno, R aúl ^a   Gómez Sánchez, Miguel Angel ^a   Rodrigo, José Luis ^a   Fernández, Cristina ^a   Ferreiros, Joaquin ^a   Rufilanchas, Juan José ^a   Sánchez Harguindey, Luis ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXPLANT; HEART DISEASE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; CELL SURVIVAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0036710610     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(02)02513-4     Document Type: Article

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