THE UTILITY OF POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET) MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING (MPI) IN THE ASSESSMENT OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE IN PATIENTS WITH APICAL HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY: FRIEND OR FOE?
| Autor: | Maya Serhal, Shivda Pandey, Michel Ibrahim, Alice K. Jacobs, Stephanie Feldman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Limiting medicine.disease Coronary artery disease Myocardial perfusion imaging Positron emission tomography Exertional chest pain Internal medicine medicine Cardiology In patient Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 75:3408 |
| ISSN: | 0735-1097 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0735-1097(20)34035-3 |
| Popis: | Exertional chest pain with abnormal ECGs are not uncommon in patients with apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (aHCM). It is difficult to exclude the presence of flow limiting coronary artery disease A 73-year-old Female with history of aHCM, CAD who presented with severe exertional substernal chest |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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