@article{42e2d80dbaa34fadb36e647957cef663,
title = "Myocardial infarct imaging with technetium-99m phosphates",
abstract = "Technetium-99m-phosphate imaging is particularly valuable in detecting (1) small transmural infarcts (3 g and larger in size); (2) new acute transmural infarcts in or near regions of old infarction; (3) acute subendocardial infarcts (larger than 3 g in size); (4) acute infarction in patients with left bundle branch block; and (5) perioperative myocardial infarction. Localization of inferior and posterior myocardial infarction is improved with imaging. Sizing of acute anterior and lateral infarcts has been accurately done in dogs28,29 and should prove helpful in patients. Extensive evaluation in both experimental animals and in patients has shown 99mTc-phosphate myocardial imaging to be a useful clinical tool, and it may be one of the most sensitive noninvasive ways presently available to identify acute myocardial necrosis. It is important to understand that 99mTc-phosphate imaging has a different pathophysiologic basis from EKGs or serum enzymes. These tests do not compete but instead should complement one another.",
author = "Parkey, {Robert W.} and Bonte, {Frederick J.} and {Maximilian Buja}, L. and Stokely, {Ernest M.} and Willerson, {James T.}",
note = "Funding Information: From the Departments of Radiology, Pathology, and lnternal Medicine, Southwestern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas. Supported, in part, by the Harry S. Moss Heart Fund, National Institutes of Health Ischemic Heart Disease Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) Grant HL 17669, National Institutes of' Health Grant HL 17777, and the Southwestern Medical Foundation. Robert W. Parkey, M.D.: Associate Professor of Radiology, Chief of Nuclear Medicine, Southwestern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas,{"} Frederick J. Bonte, M.D.: Professor of Radiology, Dean, Southwestern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas; L. Maximilian Buja, M.D.: Associate Professor of Pathology, Southwestern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas; Ernest M. Stoke\[y, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Radiology, Southwestern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas; James T. Willerston, M.D.: Professor of Internal Medicine, Director of Ischemic Heart Disease Specialized Center of Research, Southwestern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas. Reprint requests should be addressed to Robert W. Parkey, M.D., Southwestern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas. 9 1977 by Grune & Stratton, Inc.",
year = "1977",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1016/S0001-2998(77)80004-4",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "7",
pages = "15--28",
journal = "Seminars in Nuclear Medicine",
issn = "0001-2998",
publisher = "W.B. Saunders Ltd",
number = "1",
}