... stratification of patients with Chagas disease. Limited data are available regarding right ventricular function assessed by CMR in Chagas disease. Radionuclide ventriculography is used for global biventricular function assessment in patients with suspected or definite cardiac involvement in Chagas disease...

... shape. ¹ Validation 2D Echocardiography 3D Echocardiography Magnetic resonance imaging Radionuclide ventriculography Abstract Aims Radionuclide techniques, and recently MRI, have been used for clinical evaluation of right ventricular (RV) volumes function (RVEF) and volumes...

... stimulation. A major discrepancy with traditional knowledge now arises; this dilemma stems from a noninvasive radionuclide ventriculography test that codifies reproducible results in 24 humans to create findings that unequivocally questions conventional thinking. Does this finding indicate...

... of the cardiac cycle and myocardial fiber tracking, and compare these findings with other phasic measurements of cardiac activity made by ultrasonic sonomicrometer crystals [5] , echocardiography, radionuclide ventriculography tracings [6] , and determine if a structure/function relationship can be linked...

... radionuclide ventriculography SPECT single-photon emission computed tomography Thallium Thallium-201 Technetium Technetium-99m Coronary heart disease is the primary single cause of left ventricular systolic dysfunction leading to heart failure in Europe. ¹ Left ventricular function...

... by echocardiography, radionuclide ventriculography and cardiovascular magnetic resonance Are they interchangeable? N. G. Bellenger1, M. I. Burgess2,S.G.Ray2, A. Lahiri3, A. J. S. Coats1, J. G. F...

... identified who had had a chest radiograph, radionuclide ventriculography, and an echocardiographic study within three months of each other. Only those patients were included for whom M mode echocardiographic tracings were available. We sought to compare methods of quantifying left ventricular function...

...S. S. Lele; D. Macfarlane; S. Morrison; H. Thomson; F. Khafagi; M. Frenneaux Diastolic function exercise capacity radionuclide ventriculography coronary artery disease European Heart Journal (1996) 17, 204-212 Determinants of exercise capacity in patients with coronary artery...

... To compare the measurement of left ventricular ejection fraction obtained by two-dimensional echocardiography and by radionuclide ventriculography in patients following acute myocardial infarction, 49 consecutive patients with acute myocardial infarction underwent echocardiography and radionuclide...

... ventricular volumes. Thus the conductance catheter can provide reliable absolute left ventricular volume measurements under steady state conditions. Cardiovascular Research 1994; 28 :252-258 conductance catheter radionuclide ventriculography left ventricular volume parallel conductance 252...

... ejection fractions were determined by radionuclide ventriculography and estimated from a 12 lead electrocardiogram (ECG), using Selvester's QRS score, during the early phase of a MI (15 to 21 days following MI). Global ejection fractions determined by radionuclide ventriculography and from ECG using...

... mis⁻¹ and 1-year mortality. We conclude that the clinical use of radionuclide LV PFR in patients with AMI may lead to spurious results, unless the influence of LV size and ejection fraction is taken into consideration. Acute myocardial infarction radionuclide ventriculography diastolic...

... in phase and amplitude analysis (Fourier). 201-thallium exercise testing was the most sensitive (97%) and accurate (86%) study. Radionuclide ventriculography sensitivity was always lower for any criterion, although its best result was for evaluation of regional ejection fraction (85%). The most specific...

... Abstract l.S.A.M. was a prospective, placebo-controlled, double-blind multicentre trial of high-dose short-term intravenous streptokinase in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) within 6 h of the onset of symptoms. Determination of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) by radionuclide ventriculography...

... failure than did LVEF. Myocardial infarction ventricular volumes ejection fraction radionuclide ventriculography prognosis European Heart Journal (1990) 11, 791-799 Left ventricular volumes in the recovery phase after myocardial infarction: relation to infarct location, left...

...N. GADSBØLL; P. F. HøILUND-CARLSEN; G. G. NIELSEN; J. BERNING; N. E. BRUNN; P. STAGE; E. HEIN; J. MARVING; H. LØNGBORG-JENSEN; B. H. JENSEN Myocardial infarction heart failure clinical examination chest X-ray radionuclide ventriculography Address for correspondence: Niels Gadsbøll MD...

... contractile and diastolic function as measured by quantitative radionuclide ventriculography. Vasodilator therapy should be considered for the initial treatment of patients with uncomplicated essential hypertension. Am J Hypertens 1989;2:200S–206S Hypertension left ventricular performance antihypertensive...

... are of little value in the diagnosis of coronary heart disease by radionuclide ventriculography. Gated radionuclide ventriculography stress testing European Heart Journal (1988) 9, 657-664 A comparison of isometric exercise, cold pressor stimulation and dynamic exercise in patients...

... failure. DPI 201–106 inotrope cardiac failure haemodynamics radionuclide ventriculography European Heart Journal (1988) 9,498-502 Haemodynamic effects of DPI 201-106, following single intravenous dose administration to patients with moderate cardiac failure...

... varying from mild to severe. Isolated measurements of left ventricular filling rate may not accurately reflect left ventricular compliance since other factors, particularly heart rate, must be considered. aortic regurgitation diastolic function radionuclide ventriculography Cardiovascular Research, 1987...