Reversible 18-FDG-uptake defects on myocardial PET: Is this myocardial resurrection?

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  De Boeck, Bart W L ^a   Verburg, Frederik A ^a   Hobbelink, Monique G G ^a   Velthuis, Birgitta ^a   Melman, Paul G ^a   Cramer, Maarten Jan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; PET; Scintigraphy; Tako Tsubo cardiomyopathy; Viability

Indexed keywords

15 (4 IODOPHENYL) 3 METHYLPENTADECANOIC ACID I 123; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FEMALE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STUNNED HEART MUSCLE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

AGED; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL STUNNING; MYOCARDIUM; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 45849118372     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.05.046     Document Type: Article

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