The radionuclide assessment of left ventricular diastolic filling: methodology and clinical significance.
The radionuclide measurement of diastolic performance may provide a rapid noninvasive index available in the clinical setting.  These measurements may be used to detect coronary artery disease, manifestations of hypertensive heart disease, isolated diastolic heart failure, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.  The various radionuclide methods to measure diastolic filling are influenced by technological considerations, as well as applying the results in the appropriate clinical context.  The importance of these derived measurements and how they correspond to various pathophysiological presentations will be discussed.
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Departments of Internal Medicine and Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
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D003971:Diastole / Q000502:physiology*; D004452:Echocardiography; D015637:Gated Blood-Pool Imaging; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D011875:Radionuclide Angiography; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000502:physiology*