Long-term prognostic value of Tc-99m tetrofosmin myocardial gated-SPECT imaging in asymptomatic patients after percutaneous coronary intervention

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 743-747

  Georgoulias, Panagiotis ^a,d   Demakopoulos, Nikolaos ^b   Tzavara, Chara ^a   Giannakou, Stavroula ^a   Valotassiou, Varvara ^a   Tsougos, Ioannis ^c   Xaplanteris, Petros ^b   Fezoulidis, Ioannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b NIMTS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^d NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Long term prognosis; Myocardial SPECT; PCI; Tc 99m tetrofosmin

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TECHNETIUM COMPLEX; TECHNETIUM TC 99M 1,2 BIS(BIS(2 ETHOXYETHYL)PHOSPHINO)ETHANE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M 1,2-BIS(BIS(2-ETHOXYETHYL)PHOSPHINO)ETHANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CORONARY STENT; DILATATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GATED IMAGING; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; SCINTIGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUMMED DIFFERENCE SCORE; SUMMED REST SCORE; SUMMED STRESS SCORE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; HEART; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESTENOSIS; SCINTISCANNING; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 58149237878     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e318187ee88     Document Type: Article

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