Left ventricular viability in a patient with heart failure due to left main stem stenosis, predicted by SPECT and gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance but not by dobutamine stress echocardiography

Cardiovascular Journal of South Africa

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 24-26

  Smedema, J P ^a,b   Snoep, G ^b   Van Kroonenburgh, M ^b   Eerens, F ^b  

^a N1 City Medical Chambers ^*  (South Africa)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; GADOLINIUM;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STENOSIS; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE VOLUME; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33646256296     PISSN: 10159657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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