Evaluation of post-stress left ventricular dysfunction and its relationship with perfusion abnormalities using gated SPECT in patients with cardiac syndrome X

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 208-214

  Demir, Hakan ^a   Kahraman, Goksel ^a   Isgoren, Serkan ^a   Tan, Yusuf Ziya ^a   Kilic, Teoman ^b   Berk, Fatma ^b  

^a Departments of Nuclear Medicine   (Turkey)

^b KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cardiac syndrome X; Gated SPECT; Left ventricular dysfunction

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC SYNDROME X; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MALE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STENOSIS;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; MICROVASCULAR ANGINA; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 41849143335     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e3282f52c49     Document Type: Article

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