title: Resting thallium-201 scintigraphy for identifying viable myocardium in a patient with severe left ventricular dysfunction.
abstract: Recognizing patients with coronary artery disease in whom severe left ventricular dysfunction is attributed to a chronic decrease in myocardial blood flow without infarction is often difficult but important because such patients may benefit from surgical revascularization. Herein we describe a patient with severe left ventricular dysfunction who had appreciable resting wall motion abnormalities; tomographic thallium-201 myocardial scintigraphy performed while the patient was resting identified viable myocardium. Subsequent revascularization improved regional and global left ventricular function considerably.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905.
authors.forename: T C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Gibbons
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Mullany
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012146:Rest; D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left
chemical_list: D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes