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Lung-Heart Ratio in Stress Thallium Myocardial Perfusion Imaging in Patients With a History of a Previous Pneumonectomy
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Lung-Heart Ratio in Stress Thallium Myocardial Perfusion Imaging in Patients With a History of a Previous Pneumonectomy

H Turoglu, M Akisik, SLEIMAN Naddaf, WALID Omar and HUSSEIN ABDEL-DAYEM
Clinical nuclear medicine, Vol.21(10), pp.783-785
10/1996
PMID: 8896927

Abstract

Increased Tl-201 lung-heart ratio after treadmill exercise or pharmacologic stress is an indicator of left ventricular dysfunction. After pneumonectomy, it is not reliable because of increased pulmonary circulation in the remaining lung. The authors present an example of normal stress TI-201 myocardial perfusion imaging with an increased lung-heart ratio of TI-201 uptake.

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