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Sustained supraventricular tachycardia resulting in a pattern of apparent “reverse transient ischemic dilatation” and an underestimated ejection fraction

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  1. Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY, USA

    Ramesh Gadiraju MD, Srinivas Bommireddipalli MD & Gordon DePuey MD

  2. Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA

    Ameeta Ahuja MD & Eitan Klein MD

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Gadiraju, R., Bommireddipalli, S., Ahuja, A. et al. Sustained supraventricular tachycardia resulting in a pattern of apparent “reverse transient ischemic dilatation” and an underestimated ejection fraction. J. Nucl. Cardiol. 17, 153–157 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-009-9121-x

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