Flattening of the interventricular septum (D-shaped left ventricle) in addition to high right ventricular tracer uptake and increased right ventricular volume found on gated SPECT studies strongly correlates with right ventricular overload

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 428-434

  Movahed, Mohammad Reza ^a   Hepner, Absalom ^a   Lizotte, Paul ^a   Milne, Norah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

D shaped left ventricle; Gated single photon emission computed tomography; Myocardial perfusion; Pulmonary hypertension; Right ventricular overload; Septal flattening

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART SEPTUM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 23244435053     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2005.04.004     Document Type: Article

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