Baseline scintigraphic abnormalities by myocardial perfusion imaging predict echocardiographic response to cardiac resynchronization therapy in nonischemic cardiomyopathy

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 217-224

  Adelstein, Evan C ^a   Saba, Samir ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Dilated cardiomyopathy; Echocardiography; Myocardial perfusion imaging

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; NON ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44449106118     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20116     Document Type: Article

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