title: Nuclear imaging after cell implantation.
abstract: Since no currently available method is able to determine engraftment into the myocardium or stem cell differentiation in a living patient, the evidence of stem cell therapy efficacy is in all cases indirect.
authors.affiliation: Nuclear Cardiology, CNR Institutes of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy. marzullo@ifc.cnr.it
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Marzullo
mesh_terms: D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000601:surgery; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D033581:Stem Cell Transplantation; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon