June 1, 2004Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Functional Neuroimaging of Sympathetic Innervation of the Heart
Why the study?
Does functional neuroimaging of cardiac sympathetic innervation provide diagnostic and prognostic information in various autonomic and cardiovascular disorders?
Population
Patients with disorders affecting cardiac sympathetic innervation
Design
Review
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
May aid differentiation of Parkinson disease from multiple-system atrophy and risk stratification in heart failure; leaves open prospective validation before clinical adoption.
Structured PICO
Does functional neuroimaging of cardiac sympathetic innervation provide diagnostic and prognostic information in various autonomic and cardiovascular disorders?
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Population
Patients with disorders affecting cardiac sympathetic innervation (e.g., multiple-system atrophy, Parkinson disease, heart failure, diabetic neuropathy)
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Intervention
Nuclear scanning (functional neuroimaging) of cardiac sympathetic innervation
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Outcome
Visualization of cardiac sympathetic innervation and functionsurrogate
Functional neuroimaging of cardiac sympathetic innervation provides valuable diagnostic distinctions between autonomic disorders and independent prognostic information in heart failure and diabetic neuropathy.
Cite This Study
David S. Goldstein (2004) studied this question.