Long-term survival of patients with viable and nonviable aneurysms assessed by99mTc-MIBI SPECT and18F-FDG PET: A comparative study of medical and surgical treatment

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1288-1298

  Zhang, Xiaoli ^a,b   Liu, Xiu Jie ^a   Hu, Shengshou ^a   Schindler, Thomas H ^b   Tian, Yueqing ^a   He, Zuo Xiang ^a   Gao, Runlin ^a   Wu, Qingyu ^a   Wei, Hongxing ^a   Sayre, James W ^b   Schelbert, Heinrich R ^b  

^a FUWAI HOSPITAL   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Coronary disease; Myocardial viability; Survival

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ANEURYSM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL;

AGED; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEART ANEURYSM; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 48749127107     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.046730     Document Type: Article

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