title: Decreased post-myocardial infarction heart rate variability and cardiac denervation assessed by metaiodobenzylguanidine scintigraphy.
abstract: Decreased heart rate variability, assessed 2 weeks after uncomplicated acute myocardial infarction, is related to the extent of 1-123-metaiodobenzylguanidine-derived efferent sympathetic cardiac denervation. This postinfarction cardiac denervation could be the substrate of reduced postinfarction heart rate variability.
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Department, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: E G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Livanis
authors.forename: P G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Flevari
authors.forename: G N
authors.initials: GN
authors.lastname: Theodorakis
authors.forename: N G
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: Vassilopoulos
authors.forename: D T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Kremastinos
mesh_terms: D019797:3-Iodobenzylguanidine; D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D007462:Iodobenzenes; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013562:Sympathectomy; D013565:Sympatholytics; D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
chemical_list: D007462:Iodobenzenes; D013565:Sympatholytics; D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes; D019797:3-Iodobenzylguanidine