Iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine cardiac imaging as a method to detect early sympathetic neuronal dysfunction in chagasic patients with normal or borderline electrocardiogram and preserved ventricular function

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 757-761

  Landesmann, Maria Carolina P ^a,b   Da Fonseca, Lea Mirian Barbosa ^a,b   Pereira, Basilio De B ^a   Do Nascimento, Emília M ^a   Rosado De Castro, Paulo Henrique ^a   De Souza, Sergio Augusto Lopes ^a   Lima, Ronaldo De S L ^a,b   Pedrosa, Roberto C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL SAMARITANO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

cardiac sympathetic nervous activity; Chagas' heart disease; electrocardiogram; iodine 123 metaiodobenzylguanidine; preserved ventricular function

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 123;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BODY MASS; CARDIAC IMAGING; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; SCINTIGRAPHY; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; SYMPATHETIC NEURONAL DYSFUNCTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

3-IODOBENZYLGUANIDINE; ADULT; AGED; CARDIAC IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CHAGAS DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 80051733747     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: 15360229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31821772a9     Document Type: Article

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