Unique Contraction Pattern in Patients after Coronary Bypass Graft Surgery by Gated SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 18-24

  Yun, Juanita H ^b   Block, Matthew ^c   Botvinick, Elias H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Contraction Pattern; Coronary Bypass Graft Surgery; Gated SPECT; Perfusion Imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPICARDIUM; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; GATED SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART CONTRACTION PATTERN; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART PERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HUMAN; MALE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTOLE; TREADMILL EXERCISE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART STROKE VOLUME; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DIPYRIDAMOLE;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DIPYRIDAMOLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0037209218     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-200301000-00005     Document Type: Article

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