TY - GEN AU - Wessam Maged Mahmoud kamel AU - Azza Alsedeek Zedan , AU - khalid Abd El Fatah Elsabaan , TI - Pharmacological enhancement of 99mTC - sestamibi for detection of myocardial viability using gated spect / PY - 2005/// CY - Cairo : PB - Wessam Maged Mahmoud kamel , KW - Hibernated myocardium KW - Myocardialviability KW - Nitroglycerine KW - Stunned myocardium KW - Trimetazidine KW - Vastarel N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Medicine - Department Of Nuclear Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - The role of radionuclide imaging in the determination of myocardial viability is well known , Simultaneous perfusion and motion assessment of myocardial scintigraphy may significantly increase the diagnostic gain of ECGgated Tc - 99m - Sestamibi SPECT compared with an isolated perfusion assessment , Hibernating myocardium is said to exist when myocardial function is impaired as a result of critical coronary artery stenosis / reduced coronary blood flow in the absence of myocardial necrosisThus , detection of hibernating myocardium is of great therapeutic and prognostic significance UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -