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Is There an Incremental Prognostic Value of Evaluating Left Ventricular Dyssynchrony by Gated SPECT in Patients with Systolic Heart Failure and Altered Myocardial Sympathetic Innervation as Evaluated by Cardiac I-123 mIBG Imaging?

Authors :
Karthik Ananthasubramaniam
Gordon Jacobsen
Akif Mohammed
Source :
World Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology. :161-169
Publication Year :
2016
Publisher :
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc., 2016.

Abstract

Background: Altered myocardial sympathetic innervation activity (AMSI) is known to be present in systolic heart failure patients (SHF) and recently SPECT imaging using I-123 mIBG heart to mediastinum (H/M) ratio

Details

ISSN :
21616809 and 21616795
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
World Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........1bbf2558142075923f7c8bf845130432
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.4236/wjnst.2016.63018