Can the reversible regional wall motion abnormalities on stress gated Tc-99m sestamibi SPECT predict a future cardiac event?

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 20-31

  Petix, Nunzia Rosa ^a   Sestini, Stelvio ^b   Marcucci, Gabriella ^b   Coppola, Angela ^b   Arena, Angela ^b   Nassi, Franco ^a   Taiti, Andrea ^a   Guarnaccia, Vincenzo ^a   Mennuti, Alberto ^b   Mazzoni, Vincenzo ^a  

^a SAN GIUSEPPE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b MISERICORDIA E DOLCE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gated single photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion scintigraphy; Myocardial stunning; Prognosis; Reversible regional wall motion abnormalities

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GATED IMAGING; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WORK; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STUNNED HEART MUSCLE; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

CLINICAL TRIALS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 19944430516     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2004.09.017     Document Type: Article

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