Left ventricular wall motion abnormalities as well as reduced wall thickness can cause false positive results of routine SPECT perfusion imaging for detection of myocardial infarction

European Heart Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 2127-2135

  Mahrholdt, Heiko ^a   Zhydkov, Andreji ^a   Hager, Stefan ^a   Meinhardt, Gabriel ^a   Vogelsberg, Holger ^a   Wagner, Anja ^b   Sechtem, Udo ^a  

^a ROBERT BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Left bundle branch block; Magnetic resonance imaging; Myocardial infarction; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DYSKINESIA; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTOLE; THICKNESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 26044433337     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehi387     Document Type: Article

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