Myocardial stress perfusion scintigraphy for outcome prediction in patients with severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction.
Alessia GimelliAlberto AimoEmilio Maria PasanisiMichele Alessandro CoceaniAlberto ClementeMichele EmdinLeslee J ShawPublished in: European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging (2021)
In patients with LVEF ≤35%, SRS and SSS are less predictive of outcome than in patients with better preserved systolic dysfunction, but their cut-offs retain independent prognostic significance from the number of vessels with significant stenoses and from early revascularization.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- heart failure
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- acute myocardial infarction
- blood pressure
- left atrial
- oxidative stress
- aortic stenosis
- mitral valve
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- magnetic resonance imaging
- pet ct
- coronary artery bypass grafting
- contrast enhanced
- computed tomography
- coronary artery disease
- heat stress
- drug induced
- acute coronary syndrome
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement