Current diagnostic techniques of assessing myocardial viability in patients with hibernating and stunned myocardium.

V Dilsizian, RO Bonow - Circulation, 1993 - Am Heart Assoc
T he differentiation of viable from nonviable myo-cardium in patients with coronary artery dis-
ease and left ventriculardysfunction is an issue of increasing clinical relevance in the current …

Accuracy of currently available techniques for prediction of functional recovery after revascularization in patients with left ventricular dysfunction due to chronic …

JJ Bax, W Wijns, JH Cornel, FC Visser… - Journal of the American …, 1997 - jacc.org
Objectives. This study evaluated the relative merits of the most frequently used techniques
for predicting improvement in regional contractile function after coronary revascularization in …

Noninvasive assessment myocardial viability: current status and future directions

KC Allman - Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, 2013 - Elsevier
Observations of reversibility of cardiac contractile dysfunction in patients with coronary artery
disease and ischemia were first made more than 40 years ago. Since that time a wealth of …

Quantitative relation between myocardial viability and improvement in heart failure symptoms after revascularization in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy

MF Di Carli, F Asgarzadie, HR Schelbert, RC Brunken… - Circulation, 1995 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Studies of patients with coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction
have shown that preoperative quantification of myocardial viability may be clinically useful to …

Sensitivity, specificity, and predictive accuracies of various noninvasive techniques for detecting hibernating myocardium

JJ Bax, D Poldermans, A Elhendy, E Boersma… - Current Problems in …, 2001 - Elsevier
Methods A MEDLINE search (1980 through January 2000) was performed using the search
term “myocardial viability” in combination with a set of terms for the techniques:“Thallium …

Myocardial viability in patients with chronic coronary artery disease. Comparison of 99mTc-sestamibi with thallium reinjection and [18F] fluorodeoxyglucose.

V Dilsizian, JA Arrighi, JG Diodati, AA Quyyumi… - Circulation, 1994 - Am Heart Assoc
BACKGROUND 99mTc-sestamibi and thallium imaging have similar accuracy when used
for diagnostic purposes, but whether sestamibi provides accurate information regarding …

Guidelines for clinical use of cardiac radionuclide imaging: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on assessment of …

JL Ritchie, TM Bateman, RO Bonow… - Journal of Nuclear …, 1995 - Springer
The American CoIlege of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on
Assessment of Cardiovascular Procedures was formed to make recommendations regarding …

Positron emission tomography and recovery following revascularization (PARR-1): the importance of scar and the development of a prediction rule for the degree of …

RSB Beanlands, TD Ruddy, RA dekemp… - Journal of the American …, 2002 - jacc.org
Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine whether the extent of viability or scar is
important in the amount of recovery of left ventricular (LV) function, and to develop a model …

[BOOK][B] Nuclear cardiac imaging: principles and applications

AE Iskandrian, FG Hage - 2024 - books.google.com
Nuclear cardiac imaging refers to cardiac radiological diagnostic techniques performed with
the aid of radiopharmaceuticals, which are perfused into the myocardium as markers. These …

Prediction of ReversibleIschemia After Revascularization: Perfusion and Metabolic Studies WithPositron Emission Tomography

N Tamaki, M Kawamoto, E Tadamura, Y Magata… - Circulation, 1995 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Accurate noninvasive determination of myocardial viability is of paramount
importance for the clinical identification of patients who will benefit most from …