| Autor: |
Alexánderson Rosas E; Department de Medicina Nuclear, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez y Unidad PET/CT Ciclotrón, Facultad de Medicina, UNAM, Tlalpan, DF México., Lamothe Molina PA, Iñarra Talboy F, Calleja Torres R, Martínez García A, Ochoa López JM, Meave González A |
| Jazyk: |
Spanish; Castilian |
| Zdroj: |
Archivos de cardiologia de Mexico [Arch Cardiol Mex] 2008 Oct-Dec; Vol. 78 (4), pp. 431-7. |
| Abstrakt: |
It used to be thought that the consequences of coronary artery disease were final, and that the prognosis of the patient was limited to the extent of the ventricular dysfunction. This paradigm changed radically when the concept of hibernating myocardium was introduced, which states the existence of tissue that can regain contractile function after being re-vascularized. This introduced a new concept in cardiology: myocardial viability. This work presents a clear example of the importance of detecting myocardial viability in selected patients, due to the impact not only in treatment but in prognosis as well. It is also emphasized that positron emission tomography (PET) is the gold standard method to detect myocardial viability. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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