Nitrates and viability: A durable affair

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 752-755

  Sciagrà, Roberta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; NITRATE; TEBOROXIME TC 99M; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; TRACER; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; THALLIUM;

COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG UPTAKE; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; HEART PRELOAD; HUMAN; IMAGING; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VASODILATATION; DRUG EFFECT; HEART; SCINTISCANNING;

CORONARY CIRCULATION; HEART; HUMANS; NITROGLYCERIN; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0038282727     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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