Emerging Role of Myocardial Perfusion Imaging to Evaluate Patients for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 211-217

  Trimble, Mark A ^a   Borges Neto, Salvador ^a,b   Velazquez, Eric J ^a,b   Chen, Ji ^c   Shaw, Linda K ^b   Pagnanelli, Robert ^a   Garcia, Ernest V ^c   Iskandrian, Ami E ^d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; SYSTOLE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 46349095751     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2008.03.043     Document Type: Review

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