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3177241

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
13
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-11-21
pubmed:abstractText
To determine noninvasively the etiology of left ventricular (LV) dysfunction, 22 patients with a diagnosis of cardiomyopathy determined via cardiac catheterization and 5 normal control subjects underwent radionuclide ventriculography and intravenous dipyridamole-thallium-201 perfusion scanning. Both ischemically and nonischemically induced LV dysfunction had comparable global LV ejection fractions (24 +/- 6 vs 23 +/- 8%, respectively) and extent of segmental wall motion abnormalities. Right ventricular ejection fraction was significantly better in the group with an ischemic etiology of LV dysfunction (41 +/- 26 vs 13 +/- 10%, p less than 0.005) but significant group overlap was present. However, computer-assisted analysis of dipyridamole-thallium-201 myocardial perfusion scanning demonstrated more homogeneous myocardial perfusion in idiopathic cardiomyopathy (mean perfusion defect 25 +/- 11 vs 6 +/- 6%, p less than 0.001) and successfully predicted the correct etiology of LV dysfunction in 20 of 22 (91%) patients.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0002-9149
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
62
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
945-51
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Usefulness of dipyridamole-thallium-201 perfusion scanning for distinguishing ischemic from nonischemic cardiomyopathy.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine and Radiology, New England Deaconess Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article