Myocardial adrenergic innervation in patients with vasovagal syncope measured with 123I-MIBG uptake

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 134-139

  Lorincz, István ^a,d   Garai, Ildikó ^b   Varga, Emma ^a   Barta, Kitti ^a   Simkó, József ^c   Szabó, Zoltán ^a   Galuska, László ^b   Varga, József ^b  

^a Division of Emergency Medicine   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^c Semmelweis Hospital   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Metaiodobenzylguanidine test; Sympathetic innervations; Vasovagal syncope

Indexed keywords

3 IODOBENZYLGUANIDINE I 123; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENERGIC NERVE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYNCOPE; TILT TABLE TEST; TREATMENT PLANNING;

3-IODOBENZYLGUANIDINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58549113232     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e328319bfcc     Document Type: Article

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