Nuclear Medicine
First Imaging Agent Approved for Visualization of Myocardial Sympathetic Innervation in Specific Heart Failure Patients
A new imaging agent has been approved in the United States for the scintigraphic evaluation of myocardial sympathetic innervation to help in the assessment of patients with NYHA class II or class III heart failure and LVEF ≤ 35%. More...01 Apr 2013
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