Noninvasive assessment of right ventricular function: Will there be resurgence in radionuclide imaging techniques?

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 162-169

  Ramani, Gautam V ^a   Gurm, Gagandeep ^a   Dilsizian, Vasken ^a   Park, Myung H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Pulmonary hypertension; Radionuclide imaging; Right ventricle; Right ventricular function

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE;

ANATOMY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 77953534093     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-010-0092-y     Document Type: Review

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