Nuclear Cardiology

THE application of nuclear-medicine techniques to cardiovascular disease is particularly appropriate because these procedures are essentially noninvasive and provide critical physiologic data that are generally unavailable by other techniques. Nuclear-cardiology techniques can be divided into three...

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Published inThe New England journal of medicine Vol. 305; no. 14; pp. 799 - 807
Main Authors Berger, Harvey J, Zaret, Barry L
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Massachusetts Medical Society 01.10.1981
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Antibodies
Coronary Disease - diagnostic imaging
Diphosphates - metabolism
Dipyridamole - pharmacology
Gallium Radioisotopes
Heart - diagnostic imaging
Humans
Indium
Methods
Myocardial Infarction - diagnostic imaging
Myocardium - metabolism
Myosins - immunology
Physical Exertion
Radioisotopes
Rest
Technetium
Technetium Tc 99m Pyrophosphate
Thallium
Tomography, Emission-Computed - methods
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Summary:THE application of nuclear-medicine techniques to cardiovascular disease is particularly appropriate because these procedures are essentially noninvasive and provide critical physiologic data that are generally unavailable by other techniques. Nuclear-cardiology techniques can be divided into three broad categories. The first involves the evaluation of myocardial perfusion and cellular viability; these studies employ radionuclides that pass through the capillary network and concentrate within myocardial cells on the basis of blood flow or the degree of necrosis or both. The second category uses radioactive tracers that have been derived specifically for imaging on the basis of their biologic activity; these techniques involve . . .
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ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJM198110013051405