Erschienen in:
01.04.2017 | Editorial
Ventricular arrhythmias and autonomic nervous system: evolving role of radionuclide imaging
verfasst von:
Vineet Kumar, MD, Arka Chaterjee, MD
Erschienen in:
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
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Ausgabe 2/2017
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Excerpt
Autonomic nervous system exerts a strong influence on arrhythmogenesis.
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2 Focus in the recent years has changed from affirming this concept, to translating it, into clinically useful information. Risk stratification of patients beyond left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) has been the focus of most studies.
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6 They have almost exclusively studied the sympathetic innervation of the ventricular myocardium, which is easier to evaluate, with currently available radionuclide tracers than parasympathetic innervation. The principle question these studies have tried to address is: Does sympathetic denervation as assessed by nuclear imaging help in better risk stratification of heart failure (HF) patients by identifying those at increased risk of ventricular arrhythmia (VA)? …