MIBG imaging

AD Patel, AE Iskandrian - Journal of nuclear cardiology, 2002 - Springer
B corresponds to the infarct zone, whereas in a Q-wave infarction, the denervated area is
larger than the infarct zone because the downstream areas of the myocardium are also …

The management of diabetic neuropathy in CKD

R Pop-Busui, L Roberts, S Pennathur, M Kretzler… - American Journal of …, 2010 - ajkd.org
A 64-year-old man with a 15-year history of poorly controlled type 2 diabetes and a 10-year
history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia had developed multiple diabetesrelated …

Scintigraphic assessment of regionalized defects in myocardial sympathetic innervation and blood flow regulation in diabetic patients with autonomic neuropathy

MJ Stevens, F Dayanikli, DM Raffel, KC Allman… - Journal of the American …, 1998 - jacc.org
Objectives. This study sought to evaluate whether regional sympathetic myocardial
denervation in diabetes is associated with abnormal myocardial blood flow under rest and …

Pathogenesis of Lethal Cardiac Arrhythmias in Mecp2 Mutant Mice: Implication for Therapy in Rett Syndrome

MD McCauley, T Wang, E Mike, J Herrera… - Science translational …, 2011 - science.org
Rett syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder typically caused by mutations in methyl-
CpG–binding protein 2 (MECP2) in which 26% of deaths are sudden and of unknown cause …

The value of QT interval dispersion for identification of total mortality risk in non‐insulin‐dependent diabetes mellitus

Sawicki, Kiwitt, Bender - Journal of internal medicine, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Sawicki PT, Kiwitt S, Bender R, Berger M (Heinrich‐Heine University of Düsseldorf,
Düsseldorf; Germany). The value of QT interval dispersion for identification of total mortality …

Effect of glycaemic control on myocardial sympathetic innervation assessed by [123I] metaiodobenzylguanidine scintigraphy: a 4-year prospective study in IDDM …

D Ziegler, F Weise, KJ Langen, R Piolot, C Boy… - Diabetologia, 1998 - Springer
Diabetic cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy (CAN) has been directly characterized by
reduced or absent myocardial [123 I] metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) uptake, but there is …

Clinical determinants of increased QT dispersion in patients with diabetes mellitus

C Cardoso, G Salles, K Bloch, W Deccache… - International journal of …, 2001 - Elsevier
Aims: To compare QT dispersion measurements in diabetic patients to control subjects and
assess any associations between QT dispersion and diabetic clinical characteristics …

Regulation of QT indices mediated by autonomic nervous function in patients with type 2 diabetes

N Takahashi, M Nakagawa, T Saikawa… - International journal of …, 2004 - Elsevier
Both the QT interval and QT dispersion in diabetic patients have been reported to increase
with the progression of cardiac autonomic neuropathy and to have a prognostic value. We …

QT interval dispersion: dispersion of ventricular repolarization or dispersion of QT interval?

RL Lux, MS Fuller, RS MacLeod, PR Ershler… - Journal of …, 1998 - Elsevier
The QT interval (QTI) has long been useful as a clinical index of the duration of ventricular
repolarization, particularly as a marker of prolonged repolarization and its well-established …

[PDF][PDF] QT dispersion: comparison between diabetic and non-diabetic individuals and correlation with cardiac autonomic neuropathy

M Psallas, N Tentolouris, A Cokkinos… - Hellenic J …, 2006 - hellenicjcardiol.org
Methods: The study population included 184 diabetics (63 type 1, group D1; 121 type 2,
group D2) and 100 healthy controls who had similar age and sex distribution to D1 (n= 44) …