Iodine-123 mIBG Imaging for Predicting the Development of Atrial Fibrillation
Author(s) -
Yasushi Akutsu,
Kyouichi Kaneko,
Yukinobu Kodama,
Huiling Li,
Jumpei Suyama,
Akira Shinozuka,
Takehiko Gokan,
Yoko Hamazaki,
Kaoru Tanno,
Youichi Kobayashi
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
jacc. cardiovascular imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.79
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1936-878X
pISSN - 1876-7591
DOI - 10.1016/j.jcmg.2010.10.005
Subject(s) - medicine , atrial fibrillation , cardiology , ejection fraction , hazard ratio , heart failure , iodine 123 , scintigraphy , confidence interval , brain natriuretic peptide , mediastinum , heart disease , radiology
we investigated whether cardiac sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity measured by iodine-123 meta-iodobenzylguanidine ((123)I-mIBG) imaging would be associated with both the occurrence of heart failure (HF) and the transit to permanent atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with paroxysmal AF.
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