Functional recovery after coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction and preserved myocardial viability in the left anterior descending arterial territory as assessed by thallium- 201 myocardial perfusion imaging

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 752-758

  Chikamori, Taishiro ^a   Hirose, Kunihiko ^a   Hamada, Tomio ^a   Hitomi, Nobuhiko ^a   Kitaoka, Hiroaki ^a   Yabe, Toshikazu ^a   Furuno, Takashi ^a   Seo, Hiromi ^a   Yamashiro, Toshiyuki ^a   Doi, Yoshinori ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass grafting; Left ventricular function; Myocardial viability; Thallium 201 myocardial imaging

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0347608852     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.63.752     Document Type: Article

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