ECG-gated 99mTc single-photon emission CT for assessment of right ventricular structure and function: Is the information provided similar to echocardiography?

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Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 227-232

  Aepfelbacher, Franz C ^a   Yeon, Susan B ^a   Ho, Kalon K L ^a   Parker, J Anthony ^a   Danias, Peter G ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ECG gated single photon emission CT; Echocardiography; Right ventricle; Single photon emission CT

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; TECHNETIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART DILATATION; HEART INFARCTION LOCALIZATION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILE FORCE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PERFORMANCE; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HEART VENTRICLE WORK; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTOLIC TIME INTERVAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, RIGHT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 0037822129     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.124.1.227     Document Type: Article

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