PMID- 15216742
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20041206
LR  - 20161124
IS  - 1405-9940 (Print)
IS  - 1665-1731 (Linking)
VI  - 74 Suppl 1
DP  - 2004 Jan-Mar
TI  - [Usefulness of nuclear techniques in the study of myocardial viability].
PG  - S8-12
AB  - The assessment of myocardial viability in patients with coronary artery disease 
      and left ventricular dysfunction is of great diagnostic and prognostic value. The 
      identification of myocardial viability, in patients with coronary artery disease 
      and left ventricular dysfunction is useful in risk stratification, for it allows 
      the prediction of a group of patients that may benefit the most from a 
      revascularization procedure. The revascularization of dysfunctional (asinergic) 
      segments showing viability in patients with coronary artery disease and left 
      ventricular dysfunction has been associated to improved survival and New York 
      Heart Association (NYHA) class. An improvement in global as well as in regional 
      left ventricular function has also been described. Currently, several 
      non-invasive imaging techniques have been used to assess myocardial viability, 
      among them, nuclear cardiology methods are the most employed. TI-201 SPECT 
      imaging (stress-redistribution-reinjection) is one of the most commonly used, 
      because of its availability, cost, and correlation with 18-FDG PET studies, which 
      is considered the gold standard among imaging techniques for the detection of 
      myocardial viability. Therefore, if PET is available, it should be used in 
      patients with coronary artery disease and moderate to severe left ventricular 
      dysfunction.
FAU - Alexanderson, Erick
AU  - Alexanderson E
AD  - Departamento de Medicina Nuclear, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio 
      Chavez, Unidad PET-Ciclotron, Facultad de Medicina, UNAM, Mexico, D.F. 
      alexanderick@yahoo.com
LA  - spa
PT  - Journal Article
TT  - Utilidad de las tecnicas nucleares en el estudio de la viabilidad miocardica.
PL  - Mexico
TA  - Arch Cardiol Mex
JT  - Archivos de cardiologia de Mexico
JID - 101126728
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - Myocardial Ischemia/*diagnostic imaging
MH  - Positron-Emission Tomography
MH  - Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
MH  - Ventricular Dysfunction/*diagnostic imaging
EDAT- 2004/06/26 05:00
MHDA- 2004/12/16 09:00
CRDT- 2004/06/26 05:00
PHST- 2004/06/26 05:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2004/12/16 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2004/06/26 05:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Arch Cardiol Mex. 2004 Jan-Mar;74 Suppl 1:S8-12.