Diagnosis of diffuse and localized arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia by gated blood-pool SPECT

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1416-1423

  Mariano Goulart, Denis ^a   Déchaux, Laurent ^a   Rouzet, François ^b   Barbotte, Eric ^a,b   De Kerleau, Charles Caderas ^a   Rossi, Michel ^a   Le Guludec, Dominique ^b  

^a LAPEYRONIE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia; Phase analysis; Time of end systole; Time activity curve; Tomographic gated blood pool ventriculography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARD DEVIATION OF THE LOCAL TIME OF ENDSYSTOLE; SYSTOLE; TIMES OF ENDSYSTOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSPLASIA; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 34548656327     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.041129     Document Type: Article

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