Abstract
Myocardial imaging with radioisotopes is finding increasing clinical application in the evaluation of patients with both ischemic and nonischemic heart disease (1–7). Although experience with these techniques for identification of patients at risk for sudden cardiac death is still limited, the data that is available, and accumulating in several centers, suggests that myocardial imaging has an important role in this, as yet, unsolved clinical problem. In this chapter the major clinically available techniques for myocardial imaging with radioisotopes will be briefly reviewed along with their application to the problem of sudden cardiac death.
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Pitt, B. (1980). Detection of High Risk Patients for Sudden Death: The Role of Myocardial Imaging with Radioisotopes. In: Kulbertus, H.E., Wellens, H.J.J. (eds) Sudden Death. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8834-7_18
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