Review of Movahed's sign (D shaped left ventricle seen on gated SPECT) suggestive of right ventricular overload

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 553-557

  Murarka, Shishir ^a   Movahed, Mohammad Reza ^b  

^a Banner Estrella Medical Center   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

D shaped left ventricle; Gated SPECT; Nuclear cardiology; Right ventricle overload; Right ventricular hypertrophy; RVH; Septal flattening

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM; THALLIUM 201; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

CARDIAC IMAGING; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; D SHAPED LEFT VENTRICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GATED SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY BANDING; MOHAVEDS SIGN; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 77955505807     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-010-9600-9     Document Type: Review

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