Myocardial late gadolinium enhancement: Prevalence, pattern, and prognostic relevance in marathon runners

Radiology

Volumn 251, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 50-57

  Breuckmann, Frank ^a   Möhlenkamp, Stefan ^a   Nassenstein, Kai ^a   Lehmann, Nils ^a   Ladd, Susanne ^a   Schmermund, Axel ^b   Sievers, Burkhard ^a   Schlosser, Thomas ^a   Jöckel, Karl Heinz ^a   Heusch, Gerd ^a   Erbel, Raimund ^a   Barkhausen, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b CARDIOANGIOLOGISCHES CENTRUM BETHANIEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE PERFUSION IMAGING; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FISHER EXACT TEST; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LATE GADOLINIUM ENHANCEMENT; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LOG RANK TEST; MALE; MARATHON RUNNER; MCNEMAR TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; ENDURANCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GERMANY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RUNNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GADOLINIUM;

AGED; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; GADOLINIUM; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RUNNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 64949149880     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2511081118     Document Type: Article

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