Background 99"Tc-sestamibi and thallium imaging have similar accuracy when used for diagnostic purposes, but whether sestamibi provides accurate information regarding myocardial viability in patients with chronic coronary artery disease has not been established. Since there is minimal redistribution of sestamibi over time, it may overestimate nonviable myocardium in patients with left ventricul...

To assess the potential effect of hypertension on the results of thallium-201 stress imaging in patients with chest pain, 272 thallium-201 stress tests performed in 133 hypertensive patients and 139 normotensive patients over a 1-year period were reviewed. Normotensive and hypertensive patients were similar in age, gender distribution, prevalence of cardiac risk factors (tobacco smoking, hyperl...

The potential of modified multiwallcd carbon nanotubes, as a solid-phase extraction sorbent for the simultaneous separation and preconcentration of zinc and thallium has been investigated. Zinc and thallium were adsorbed quantitatively onto modified multiwalled carbon nanotubes in the pH range of 3 6.5. Parameters influencing the simultaneous preconcentration of Zn(II) and Tl(I) ions such as pH...

Submaximal thallium-201 stress testing has been shown to provide important diagnostic and prognostic information in patients with acute myocardial infarction. The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the diagnostic value of early submaximal stress testing and thallium-201 single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) after interventional therapy. Scintigraphic results from 56 pati...

In the present work the methods of relativistic quantum chemistry have been applied to a number of small systems containing heavy elements, for which relativistic e ects are important. First, a thorough introduction of the methods used is presented. This includes some of the general methods of computational chemistry and a special section dealing with how to include the e ects of relativity in ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to compare thallium reinjection with standard stress/delay redistribution for the prediction of cardiac events. BACKGROUND Although thallium reinjection enhances the detection of viable myocardium, its contribution to prognosis over stress/delay redistribution in a general referral population has not been clearly evaluated. METHODS This retrospective...

In the present work, systematic dating by luminescence methods has been done on 50 Quaternary geological samples within the study area of São Paulo State, Brazil. Bleaching experiments showed that residual TL intensity of 375 degrees C peak, of the quartz, was obtained after 10 h of sunlight exposition. Intensities decays of the 325 and 375 degrees C TL peaks can be fitted using second order ex...

In 65 patients with a previous transmural myocardial infarction (anterior in 33, inferior in 32), exercise thallium scanning was compared with 12-lead exercise electrocardiography to see if multivessel disease could be detected. At coronary arteriography 40 patients were shown to have multivessel disease ( greater than or equal to 70% diameter stenosis in two or three vessels) and 25 patients h...