Left ventricular dilation and functional impairment assessed by gated SPECT are indicators of cardiac allograft vasculopathy in heart transplant recipients

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 719-728

  Wenning, Christian ^a,b   Stypmann, Jörg ^b   Papavassilis, Philipp ^b   Sindermann, Jürgen ^b   Schober, Otmar ^b   Hoffmeier, Andreas ^b   Scheld, Hans H ^b   Stegger, Lars ^b   Schäfers, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

allograft vasculopathy; cardiac function; ejection fraction; gated perfusion SPECT; heart transplantation

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GATED SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART STRESS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; CARDIAC-GATED SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER-ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84861898598     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: 15573117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2012.02.018     Document Type: Article

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