Transient increase in wall thickness of the left ventricular apex during recovery from "ampulla" cardiomyopathy

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 707-710

  Tanaka, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Harada, Yoshiaki ^a   Shiraishi, Jun ^a   Suzaki, Yoko ^a   Nomura, Tetsuya ^a   Hayashi, Hironori ^a   Hosomi, Yasuo ^a   Hirano, Shinji ^a  

^a Department of Cardiology   (Japan)

^b Kumihama Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

"Ampulla" cardiomyopathy; Thallium single photon emission computed tomography; Transient apical wall thickening

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPOKINESIA; MYOCARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THICKNESS;

EID: 1042302913     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02984980     Document Type: Article

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