A case of false-positive myocardial perfusion imaging in a patient with left bundle branch block

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 498-499

  Georgoulias, Panagiotis ^a,c   Demakopoulos, Nikolaos ^b   Xaplanteris, Petras ^b   Mortzos, Georgios ^b   Fezoulidis, Ioannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b NIMTS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adenosine; Left bundle branch block; Myocardial perfusion imaging

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PROPRANOLOL; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADENOSINE; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; THALLIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 21444453771     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000167491.54528.cd     Document Type: Article

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