Perioperative and late outcome in patients with left ventricular ejection fraction of 35% or less who require major vascular surgery

A Kazmers, MD Cerqueira, RE Zierler - Journal of vascular surgery, 1988 - Elsevier
Survival in patients with diminished left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) is reduced after
major vascular surgery. The objective of this study was to determine perioperative (30-day) …

Dipyridamole cardiac imaging

AS Iskandrian, J Heo, A Askenase, BL Segal… - American Heart …, 1988 - Elsevier
Dipyridamole cardiac imaging is a useful alternative technique to exercise stress testing in
the evaluation of patients with ischemic heart disease. Intravenous dipyridamole is still in the …

Diagnosis of coronary artery disease by controlled coronary vasodilation with adenosine and thallium-201 scintigraphy in patients unable to exercise.

MS Verani, JJ Mahmarian, JB Hixson, TM Boyce… - Circulation, 1990 - Am Heart Assoc
Pharmacological coronary vasodilation induced by dipyridamole is often used in association
with thallium-201 myocardial scintigraphy to evaluate the presence and prognostic …

Comparison of adenosine and exercise thallium-201 single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging

NC Gupta, DJ Esterbrooks, DE Hilleman… - Journal of the American …, 1992 - Elsevier
Pharmacologic stress with dipyridamole has provided useful diagnostic, as well as
prognostic, information in patients undergoing thallium-201 myocardial perfusion imaging …

Ability of dipyridamole-thallium-201 imaging one to four days after acute myocardial infarction to predict in-hospital and late recurrent myocardial ischemic events

KA Brown, J O'Meara, CE Chambers… - The American journal of …, 1990 - Elsevier
The ability of dipyridamole-thallium-201 imaging to predict in-hospital and late cardiac
events when performed very early (62±21 hours, range 23 to 102) after acute myocardial …

Clinical significance of perfusion defects by thallium-201 single photon emission tomography following oral dipyridamole early after coronary angioplasty

A Jain, JJ Mahmarian, S Borges-Neto… - Journal of the American …, 1988 - Elsevier
The clinical significance of myocordial perfusion defects present early after angiographically
successful percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty was assessed in 53 patients …

Quantitative thallium-201 single photon emission computed tomography after oral dipyridamole for assessing the presence, anatomic location and severity of coronary …

S Borges-Neto, JJ Mahmarian, A Jain, R Roberts… - Journal of the American …, 1988 - Elsevier
The objective of this investigation was to determine whether analysis of thalliura-201 images
as detected by quantitative single photon emission computed tomography after a single high …

New developments in pharmacologic stress imaging

FP van Rugge, EE van der Wall, AVG Bruschke - American Heart Journal, 1992 - Elsevier
The clinical usefulness of cardiac imaging modalities that rely upon the detection of
perfusion defects and wall motion disturbances requires conditions that provoke a …

Myocardial perfusion imaging during pharmacologic stress testing

JJ Mahmarian, MS Verani - Cardiology Clinics, 1994 - Elsevier
Pharmacologic stress testing has gained wide acceptance as an alternative to exercise
stress testing when combined with myocardial perfusion scintigraphy and has expanded the …

Clinical validation of technetium‐99m MIBI‐gated single‐photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) for avoiding false positive results in patients with left bundle …

H Demir, G Erbay, KM Kir, K Omurlu… - … Indexed and Peer …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Background: Septal perfusion defects are common on my‐ocardial perfusion single‐photon
emission computed tomography (SPECT) slices in patients with left bundle‐branch block …