| Literature DB >> 17689719 |
Bart W L De Boeck, Frederik A Verburg, Monique G G Hobbelink, Birgitta Velthuis, Paul G Melman, Maarten-Jan M Cramer.
Abstract
Because it can accurately detect preserved glucose metabolism even in the hypoperfused or stunned myocardium, 18-FDG-PET is considered as the gold standard of myocardial viability assessment. In tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy, a presumed condition of stunning, absence of glucose metabolism however is not a marker of death. This sheds a critical light on 18-FDG-PET as a gold standard for viability.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17689719 DOI： 10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.05.046
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Cardiol ISSN： 0167-5273 Impact factor: 4.164