Use of thallium-201 redistribution scintigraphy in the preoperative differentiation of reversible and nonreversible myocardial asynergy.

Rozanski, Alan; S. Berman, Daniel; Gray, Richard; J. Levy, Richard; Raymond, Michel; Maddahi, Jamshid; Pantaleo, Nancy; D. Waxman, Alan; Swan, H.J.C.; M. Matloff, Jack

doi:10.1161/01.cir.64.5.936

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Use of thallium-201 redistribution scintigraphy in the preoperative differentiation of reversible and nonreversible myocardial asynergy.

Published in Circulation • Nov 1, 1981

Authors:

Alan Rozanski

Daniel S. Berman

Richard Gray

Abstract

Thallium-201 (201Tl) redistribution scintigraphy might differentiate reversibly from nonreversibly asynergic myocardial segments and thus predict the response of these segments to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). To test this hypothesis, 25 consecutive patients undergoing CABG, preoperative s...

Subject

Asynergy

Medicine

Thallium

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