Emerging role of multimodality imaging to evaluate patients at risk for sudden cardiac death

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 525-535

  Bertini, Matteo ^a   Schalij, Martin J ^a   Bax, Jeroen J ^a   Delgado, Victoria ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 123; AMMONIA; CARBON 11; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; NITROGEN 13; NORADRENALIN; OXYGEN 15; RUBIDIUM 82; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; THALLIUM 201; WATER;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ARTICLE; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; GAP JUNCTION; HEART ARREST; HEART DEATH; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INNERVATION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LONG QT SYNDROME; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NERVE BLOCK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUDDEN DEATH; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; UNITED STATES; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME;

CONTRAST MEDIA; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84867147838     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.110.961532     Document Type: Article

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