Can LV dyssynchrony as assessed with phase analysis on gated myocardial perfusion SPECT predict response to CRT?

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1104-1111

  Henneman, Maureen M ^a   Chen, Ji ^b   Dibbets Schneider, Petra ^a   Stokkel, Marcel P ^a   Bleeker, Gabe B ^a,c   Ypenburg, Claudia ^a   Van Der Wall, Ernst E ^a,c   Schalij, Martin J ^a   Garcia, Ernest V ^b   Bax, Jeroen J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Heart failure; Left ventricular dyssynchrony; SPECT

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GATED IMAGING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34447341984     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.039925     Document Type: Article

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