Assessment of infarcted myocardium with real time myocardial contrast echocardiography: Comparison with technetiurn-99m sestamibi single photon emission computed tomography

Heart

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1568-1572

  Tousek, P ^a   Orban, M ^a   Martinoff, S ^a   Firschke, C ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; REPERFUSION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 28144454648     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2004.057844     Document Type: Article

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