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- Title
Importancia de la detección de viabilidad miocárdica: evaluación con tomografía por emisión de positrones con <sup>18</sup>F-FDG.
- Authors
Rosas, Erick Alexánderson; Lamothe Molina, Pedro Alberto; Talboy, Fernando Iñarra; Torres, Rodrigo Calleja; García, Alfonso Martínez; Ochoa López, Juan Manuel; González, Aloha Meave
- Abstract
It used to be thought that the consequences of coronary artery disease were final, and that the prognosis of the patient was limited to the extent of the ventricular dysfunction. This paradigm changed radically when the concept of hibernating myocardium was introduced, which states the existence of tissue that can regain contractile function after being re-vascularized. This introduced a new concept in cardiology: myocardial viability. This work presents a clear example of the importance of detecting myocardial viability in selected patients, due to the impact not only in treatment but in prognosis as well. It is also emphasized that positron emission tomography (PET) is the gold standard method to detect myocardial viability.
- Publication
Archivos de Cardiología de México, 2008, Vol 78, Issue 4, p431
- ISSN
1405-9940
- Publication type
Article