Cardiac 99mTc sestamibi SPECT and 18F FDG PET as viability markers in takotsubo cardiomyopathy

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1407-1416

  Christensen, Thomas Emil ^a   Bang, Lia Evi ^a   Holmvang, Lene ^a   Ghotbi, Adam Ali ^a   Lassen, Martin Lyngby ^a   Andersen, Flemming ^a   Ihlemann, Nikolaj ^a   Andersson, Hedvig ^a   Grande, Peer ^a   Kjaer, Andreas ^a,b   Hasbak, Philip ^a  

^a Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acute heart failure; Apical ballooning; Cardiac PET; Cardiac SPECT; Nuclear imaging; Takotsubo cardiomyopathy; Viability

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; DENMARK; DIAGNOSTIC USE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TIME; TISSUE SURVIVAL;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DENMARK; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE SURVIVAL; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84929942173     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 15730743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-014-0453-5     Document Type: Article

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