Journal article
Recovery rates of regional sympathetic reinnervation and myocardial blood flow after acute myocardial infarction
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The implication of an arrhythmogenic role for infarction-induced disruption of regional myocardial sympathetic nerve activity has led to a search for noninvasive methods to study regional sympathetic nerve activity in patients after infarction.
METHODS AND RESULTS: By using positron emission tomography, we measured the time course of myocardial hypoperfusion with [13N]-ammonia retention and sympathetic innervation with …
Authors
Fallen EL; Coates G; Nahmias C; Chirakal R; Beanlands R; Wahl L; Woodcock G; Thomson M; Kamath M
Journal
American Heart Journal, Vol. 137, No. 5, pp. 863–869
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
May 1999
DOI
10.1016/s0002-8703(99)70410-2
ISSN
0002-8703