Quantitative assessment of cardiac allograft vasculopathy by real-time myocardial contrast echocardiography: A comparison with conventional echocardiographic analyses and [Tc99m]-sestamibi SPECT

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 494-500

  Hacker, Marcus ^a   Hoyer, Hans X ^a   Uebleis, Christopher ^a   Ueberfuhr, Peter ^a   Foerster, Stefan ^a   La Fougere, Christian ^a   Stempfle, Hans Ulrich ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Asklepios Stadtklinik ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac allograft vasculopathy; Contrast echocardiography; Heart transplantation; Myocardial perfusion imaging

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DOBUTAMINE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; SONOVUE;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL SCAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCAR; SCREENING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 45849132988     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euje.2007.08.006     Document Type: Article

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