Value of radionuclide studies in cardiac transplantation

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-21

  Flotats, Albert ^a   Carrió, Ignasi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cardiac transplantation; Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy; Positron emission tomography; Radionuclide imaging of necrosis and apoptosis; Radionuclide imaging of sympathetic innervation

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA N 13; ANNEXIN V TC 99M; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; HYDROXYEPHEDRINE C 11; IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; METAIODOBENZYLGUANIDINE I 123; MYOSIN ANTIBODY IN 111; PENTETREOTIDE IN 111; RADIOISOTOPE; THALLIUM 201; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; DRUG UPTAKE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART INNERVATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QRS COMPLEX; REOPERATION; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VASCULAR DISEASE;

GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644817096     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: 09147187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02985585     Document Type: Review

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