Can cardiac iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine imaging contribute to risk stratification in heart failure patients?
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Risk stratification of patients with chronic heart failure using cardiac iodine‐123 metaiodobenzylguanidine imaging: incremental prognostic value over right ventricular ejection fraction
AIMS Right ventricular (RV) systolic dysfunction has been shown to be an independent predictor of clinical outcome in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), and cardiac metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) imaging also provides prognostic information. We aimed to evaluate the long-term predictive value of combining RV systolic dysfunction and abnormal findings of cardiac MIBG imaging on outcome i...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1619-7070,1619-7089
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-008-0722-4