Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy with adenosine: Does it impair the left ventricular ejection fraction obtained with gated SPECT?

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 89-93

  Brinkman, Niels ^a   Dibbets Schneider, Petra ^a   Scholte, Arthur J H A ^a   Stokkel, Marcel P M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adenosine; Functional parameters; LVEF; Myocardial perfusion; SPECT imaging

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART RATE; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART STRESS; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ADENOSINE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY DISEASE; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 38349105930     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31815f2454     Document Type: Article

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