Usefulness of late gadolinium enhancement combined with MRI and 67-Ga scintigraphy in the diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis and disease activity evaluation

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 237-241

  Kiuchi, Shintaro ^a   Teraoka, Kunihiko ^b   Koizumi, Kiyoshi ^a   Takazawa, Kenji ^a   Yamashina, Akira ^b  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HACHIOJI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

67 Ga scintigraphy; CMR; Late gadolinium enhancement; Sarcoidosis; Steroid therapy

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; GALLIUM; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ANEURYSM; HEART SARCOIDOSIS; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SECOND DEGREE ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; SKIN BIOPSY; STEROID THERAPY;

EID: 33947263751     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 18758312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-006-9134-3     Document Type: Article

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