Prognostic value of gated SPECT in patients with left bundle branch block

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 75-81

  America, Yves G C J ^a   Bax, Jeroen J ^a   Boersma, Eric ^b   Stokkel, Marcel ^a   van der Wall, Ernst E ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

gated single photon emission computed tomography; Left bundle branch block; prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBIN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIGITALIS; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; NITRATE; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GATED IMAGING; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESUSCITATION; ROC CURVE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33846608665     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2006.10.018     Document Type: Article

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