Hand perfusion with 99mTc-HSA in patients expecting to undergo coronary bypass surgery: elaboration of a new complex diagnostic protocol for the safe removal of a radial artery graft

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 501-506

  Garai, Ildikó ^a   Csiki, Zoltán ^a   Varga, József ^a   Galuska, László ^a   Patonay, Lajos ^a   Szabados, Lajos ^a   Péterffy, Árpád ^a   Galajda, Zoltán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Coronary bypass; Radial harvesting; Scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; MACROSALB TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIAL ARTERY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCINTISCANNING; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARM BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY COMPRESSION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; ISCHEMIA; REVASCULARIZATION; ULNAR ARTERY;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIAL ARTERY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN;

EID: 33746417656     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200606000-00005     Document Type: Article

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