Usefulness of progressive inhomogeneity of myocardial perfusion and chronotropic incompetence in detecting cardiac allograft vasculopathy: Evaluation with dobutamine thallium-201 myocardial SPECT

Cardiology

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 156-161

  Wu, Yen Wen ^a   Yen, Ruoh Fang ^a   Lee, Chii Ming ^a   Ho, Yi Lwun ^a   Wang, Shoei Shen ^a   Hsu, Ron Bin ^a   Chou, Nai Kuan ^a   Huang, Por Jau ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cardiac allograft vasculopathy; Chronotropic incompetence; Dobutamine; Heart transplantation; Thallium 201 SPECT

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE TL 201; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CHRONOTROPISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DEATH; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALE; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; AGED; DOBUTAMINE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DISEASES; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 24744452344     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000087767     Document Type: Article

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