Abnormal left ventricular myocardial dynamics in eleven patients with chronic fatigue syndrome.
Eleven patients diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome were found to have abnormal left ventricular myocardial dynamics as indicated on MUGA studies. Among the abnormalities noted were abnormal wall motion at rest and stress, dilatation of the left ventricle, and segmental wall motion abnormalities.
William Beaumont Hospital, Nuclear Medicine Department, Royal Oak, MI 48073.
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D000328:Adult; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory; D004912:Erythrocytes; D005080:Exercise Test; D015673:Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D015637:Gated Blood-Pool Imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013670:Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology
D013670:Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m