Assessment of myocardial viability and left ventricular function in patients supported by a left ventricular assist device

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 372-381

  Gupta, Deepak K ^a   Skali, Hicham ^a   Rivero, Jose ^a   Campbell, Patricia ^b   Griffin, Leslie ^a   Smith, Colleen ^a   Foster, Courtney ^c   Claggett, Brian ^a   Glynn, Robert J ^a   Couper, Gregory ^a   Givertz, Michael M ^a   Mehra, Mandeep R ^a   Carli, Marcelo Di ^a,c   Solomon, Scott D ^a   Pfeffer, Marc A ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging   (United States)

Author keywords

hemodynamic unloading; left ventricular assist device; reverse remodeling; single photon emission computed tomography; speckle tracking echocardiography

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; AGED; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC USE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HEMODYNAMICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TISSUE SURVIVAL;

AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLES; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TISSUE SURVIVAL; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 84897045236     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: 15573117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2014.01.866     Document Type: Article

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