Clinical research: cardiac imagingTransient ischemic dilation ratio of the left ventricle is a significant predictor of future cardiac events in patients with otherwise normal myocardial perfusion SPECT☆
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Abbreviations
CAD
coronary artery disease
CD
cardiac death
ECG
electrocardiogram
HE
hard cardiac events
LHR
lung-heart ratio
LV
left ventricle/ventricular
MI
myocardial infarction
MPS
myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography
SE
soft cardiac events
SPECT
single photon emission computed tomography
SSS
summed stress scores
TE
total cardiac events
TID
transient ischemic dilation of the left ventricle
201Tl
thallium-201
99mTc
technetium-99m
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Supported, in part, by grants from Bristol-Myers Squibb Medical Imaging, Inc., Billerica, Massachusetts; and Fujisawa Healthcare, Inc., Deerfield, Illinois. Dr. Abidov is a Save A Heart Foundation/Max and Pauline Zimmer Family Foundation Research Fellow at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California. Dr. James E. Udelson acted as Guest Editor for this manuscript.
Copyright © 2003 American College of Cardiology Foundation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.