Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD
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Regional myocardial blood flow and glucose utilization in symptomatic patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Circulation. 1993; (5): 1580-90
Previous studies suggested the presence of myocardial ischemia in symptomatic patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Positron emission tomography, a technique that can identify metabolic consequences of ischemia in coronary artery disease, permits the noninvasive measurements of regional myocardial blood flow and glucose metabolism. This new quantitative imaging approach should therefore be suitable for detecting a possible enhancement of glucose utilization in myocardium of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and thus may help to elucidate the pathomechanism of ischemia in this disease.
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