Comparison of two-dimensional echocardiographic tissue harmonic imaging and gated sestamibi single-photon emission computed tomographic left ventricular ejection fraction measurements

There was good correlation between left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) measurements employing 2-dimensional echocardiography with tissue harmonic imaging and single-photon emission computed tomography using quantitative gated scintigraphy, although in most patients, echocardiographic EF was lowe...

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Veröffentlicht in:The American journal of cardiology 2003-09, Vol.92 (6), p.759-762
Hauptverfasser: Belkin, Robert N., Ghosh, Joydeep, Deluca, Albert J., Alas, Lourdes A., Murphy, John J., McClung, John A., Visintainer, Paul, Sarabu, Brijmohan R., Aronow, Wilbert S.
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Zusammenfassung:There was good correlation between left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) measurements employing 2-dimensional echocardiography with tissue harmonic imaging and single-photon emission computed tomography using quantitative gated scintigraphy, although in most patients, echocardiographic EF was lower. There was a high degree of agreement between these 2 techniques in assignment of EF to the categories of normal, mildly, moderately, or severely decreased. However, when EF categories did differ, echocardiography always resulted in assignment to a lower category.
ISSN:0002-9149
1879-1913
DOI:10.1016/S0002-9149(03)00850-6