Assessment of viable myocardium and prediction of postoperative improvement in left ventricular function in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction by quantitative planar stress-redistribution-reinjection 201-Tl imaging

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 179-184

  Gürsürer, Metin ^a   Pinarli, Ayşe Emre ^a,b   Aksoy, Mehmet ^a   Tosun, Remzi ^a   Yeşilçimen, Kemal ^a   Ersek, Birsen ^a  

^a DR SIYAMI ERSEK THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b Nail Bey Sok   (Turkey)

Author keywords

reinjection; revascularization; severe left ventricular dysfunction; viability

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; REVASCULARIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIONUCLIDE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 18844476073     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5273(96)02859-8     Document Type: Article

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