Relation between wall thickening on gated perfusion SPECT and functional recovery after coronary revascularization in patients with previous myocardial infarction

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1599-1605

  Petretta, Mario ^a   Storto, Giovanni ^a,b   Acampa, Wanda ^a   Sansone, Valeria ^a   Evangelista, Laura ^a   Spinelli, Letizia ^a   Cuocolo, Alberto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

Author keywords

Functional recovery; Gated SPECT; Left ventricular dysfunction; Wall thickening

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PROGNOSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 12144283005     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-004-1613-y     Document Type: Article

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