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Poster display IV experimental and instrumentation
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Positron emission tomography and the changing paradigm in coronary artery disease
While lowering cholesterol with HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors appears to affect little if at all the severity of coronary artery stenoses, at least over the time periods studied, it markedly reduces cardiac mo...
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Assessment of Myocardial Viability by Radionuclide Techniques
Ischemic cardiomyopathy associated with poor left ventricular (LV) function often presents a clinical management problem. There is overwhelming evidence that such patients have a poor prognosis when treated me...
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Findings in Myocardial Ischemia by Metabolic Imaging with Positron Emission Tomography
The development of positron emission tomography and its application in patients with coronary artery disease offer the possibility to noninvasively demonstrate metabolic consequences of ischemia in human myoca...
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Positron Emission Tomography for the Assessment of Myocardial Viability in Acute Myocardial Infarction
With the emergence of therapeutic modalities to re-establish regional blood flow to jeopardized myocardium in patients with acute myocardial infarction, there is increased interest in the pathophysiology of ti...
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Metabolic Imaging with PET in the Critically Ill Patient with Coronary Artery Disease
With positron emission tomography (PET), the non-invasive quantitative assessment of regional myocardial perfusion in blood flow, substrate fluxes and biochemical reaction rates in millimole substrates per min...
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Studies of fatty acid metabolism with positron emission tomography in patients with cardiomyopathy
Positron emission tomography (PET) permits in vivo as well as noninvasive study of fatty acid metabolism. Parameters of 11C-palmitate kinetics relate to the oxidation of fatty acids, and palmitic acid uptake is i...
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Radionuclide Angiographic Evaluation of Ventricular Function in Isolated Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries
Congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries without significant associated intracardiac pathology is an unusual anomaly with less than 50 patients documented in the literature. Rather than being...
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Symposium C
Die Echokardiographie ist heute die wichtigste bildgebende, nichtinvasive Methode für Herzuntersuchungen. Maßgeblich an diesem Erfolg beteiligt ist die Mobilität der Apparaturen und die Möglichkeit, diese rasc...
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Diagnosis — Methods for Evaluating Myocardial Microcirculation in Patients
Thallium-201 imaging has become an accepted diagnostic tool in cardiology, abnormalities in thallium-20l uptake commonly being used to detect and assess the extent of myocardial ischemia in man. Controversy re...
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Regional Myocardial Perfusion Assessed by Nitrogen-13 Labeled Ammonia and Positron Emission Computerized Axial Tomography
With the recent development of positron emission computerized axial tomography (PCT), cross-sectional imaging of the heart has become possible [1]. These cross-sectional images reflect quantitatively the distr...
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Noninvasive Detection of 47% Diameter Coronary Stenosis by Myocardial Emission Computed Tomography of Nitrogen-13 Ammonia During Pharmacologic Coronary Vasodilation in Intact Dogs
Coronary atherosclerosis often first presents as sudden death or myocardial infarction after a clinically silent period of progressing anatomic disease. Since atherosclerosis may be reversible [1–3], a routine...
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Die Bestimmung der lokalen Myokardfunktion aus dem Cineventrikulogramm bei Herzgesunden und Patienten mit coronarer Herzerkrankung
The cineventriculograms were examined in 12 healthy subjects and 24 patients with coronary heart disease. In each ventricle the mean velocity of circumferential fiber shortening was determined for three differ...
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Zur Beziehung zwischen Coronargefäßveränderungen und Störungen der lokalen Myokardfunktion
Die Häufigkeit von Funktionsstörungen des linken Ventrikels bei Patienten mit coronarer Herzerkrankung wird in der Literatur nicht einheitlich beurteilt. Sie wird mit 60 bis 75% angegeben [1, 2].
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Videometrische Ventrikelflächenbestimmung mit halbautomatischer Korrektur des Bildhintergrundes
A method for the rapid determination of left ventricular cavity areas in angiocardiograms has been developed. The angiocardiographic information is transformed into a videosignal and evaluated by an electronic...
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Bewegungsabläufe und Wanddickenänderungen in dyskinetischen und akinetischen Myokardbezirken
Die selektive Coronarographie ermöglicht es, das klinische Bild der coronaren Herzerkrankung mit pathologischen Veränderungen der Coronargefäße zu korrelieren. Die Bedeutung solcher Gefäßveränderungen für die ...
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Kontinuierliche Messung der Wanddicke des linken Ventrikels mit einem automatisierten Verfahren
Aus den Änderungen der linksventrikulären Wandstärke während einer Systole lassen sich Aussagen über den Funktionszustand umschriebener Myokardbezirke machen. Die manuelle Wandstärkenmessüng aus Cineangiogramm...
