Combined use of cardiac M-i123-iodobenzylguanidine scintigraphy and 123I-FP-CIT single photon emission computed tomography in older adults with rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 928-929

  Labate, Angelo ^a   Salsone, Maria ^a   Novellino, Fabiana ^b   Morelli, Maurizio ^b   Sturniolo, Miriam ^a   Gambardella, Antonio ^a   Quattrone, Aldo ^a  

^a Medical Oncology Unit   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 123;

AGED; AUTONOMIC DENERVATION; CASE REPORT; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; HEART DENERVATION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARASOMNIA; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION;

3-IODOBENZYLGUANIDINE; AGED; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REM SLEEP BEHAVIOR DISORDER; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 79956003294     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03379.x     Document Type: Letter

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