Open AccessRole of FDG-PET/CT in Assessing the Correlation Between Blood Pressure and Myocardial Metabolic Uptake.
Author(s) -
Chaitanya Rojulpote,
Siavash Mehdizadeh Seraj,
Mahdi Zirakchian Zadeh,
Divya Yadav,
William Raynor,
Esha Kothekar,
Abdullah Al-Zaghal,
Thomas Werner,
Oke Gerke,
Poul Flemming HøilundCarlsen,
Abass Alavi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
doaj (doaj: directory of open access journals)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2322-5726
pISSN - 2322-5718
DOI - 10.22038/aojnmb.2019.41530.1282
Subject(s) - medicine , blood pressure , cardiology , stage (stratigraphy) , nuclear medicine , paleontology , biology
We aimed to assess the association between blood pressure and LV myocardial uptake of FDG, hypothesizing that subjects with raised blood pressure would have higher FDG uptake.