Limited prognostic value of cardiac metaiodobenzylguanidine in advanced heart failure

J Heart Lung Transplant. 2010 May;29(5):591-2. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2009.10.017. Epub 2009 Dec 31.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • 3-Iodobenzylguanidine*
  • Adult
  • Cause of Death
  • Disease-Free Survival
  • Exercise Test
  • Female
  • Heart / innervation*
  • Heart Failure / diagnostic imaging*
  • Heart Failure / mortality
  • Heart Failure / physiopathology*
  • Heart Failure / surgery
  • Heart Transplantation* / mortality
  • Hemodynamics
  • Humans
  • Iodine Radioisotopes*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Natriuretic Peptide, Brain / blood
  • Oxygen / blood
  • Patient Selection
  • Prospective Studies
  • Radionuclide Imaging*
  • Sympathetic Nervous System / physiopathology*
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / diagnostic imaging*
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / physiopathology*
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / surgery

Substances

  • Iodine Radioisotopes
  • Natriuretic Peptide, Brain
  • 3-Iodobenzylguanidine
  • Oxygen