Regional alterations in myocardial sympathetic innervation in patients with transient left-ventricular apical ballooning (Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy)

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-72

  Burgdorf, Christof ^a   von Hof, Katharina ^a   Schunkert, Heribert ^a   Kurowski, Volkhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

123I MIBG; 99mTC MIBI; adregenic innervation; Apical ballooning; cardiomyopathy; SPECT; Tako Tsubo

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 123; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADRENERGIC NERVE; ADRENERGIC TRANSMISSION; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART INNERVATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

AGED; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; FEMALE; HEART; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

EID: 38649100372     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2007.08.005     Document Type: Article

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