The time for radionuclide ventriculography resurrection is coming

surgery: etiologic classification by radionuclide ventriculography

Early after open heart surgery, cardiac shock due to tamponade is easily misdiagnosed as ventricular dysfunction. The distinction is critical to successful therapy. We assessed the utility of 99mTc-red blood cell, gated equilibrium radionuclide ventriculography in 50 patients with early postoperative cardiac shock after historical, clinical, and invasive hemodynamic evaluation failed to identif...

Radionuclide ventriculography in coronary artery disease.

The clinical utility of radionuclide ventriculography in cardiac transplantation.

To assess ventricular function in patients who have undergone cardiac transplantation, 247 radionuclide ventriculograms were performed on 94 patients. During the first three days after transplantation, 19% demonstrated left ventricular dysfunction and 41% showed isolated right ventricular dysfunction. In 95 cases, radionuclide ventriculography was performed within 24 hr of myocardial biopsy. A ...

Time for diabetes surgery is it coming?

The theme of this program of the French-speaking Society of Diabetology (SFD) was outlined by Fabrizzio Andreelli, François Pattou and myself. We wish to thank all the expert participants from France as well as other countries who have contributed to our presentations covering the most recent basic and clinical data on this innovative surgical treatment of diabetes. Not a single diabetologist, ...

Ventricular function by radionuclide ventriculography in malignant hypertension.

Malignant hypertension is a unique and natural model for the study of abnormalities of left ventricular function due to arterial hypertension, because the development and regression of these abnormalities can be observed in a short period. Studies of ventricular function by radionuclide ventriculography, either before or after therapy, have not been previously reported in malignant hypertensive...