Can left ventricular parameters examined by gated myocardial perfusion scintigraphy and strain echocardiography be prognostic factors for major adverse cardiac events?

Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 10-11

  Karacavus, Seyhan ^a   Celik, Ahmet ^b   Tutus, Ahmet ^c   Kula, Mustafa ^c   Oguzhan, Abdurrahman ^c   Kalay, Nihat ^c  

^a BOZOK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE PERFORMANCE; HUMAN; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRAIN ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84900402436     PISSN: 17905427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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