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Does gated FDG-PET scanning correlate with traditional clinical and echocardiographic assessments in patients with pulmonary hypertension?
Does gated FDG-PET scanning correlate with traditional clinical and echocardiographic assessments in patients with pulmonary hypertension?
Gated FDG-PET can evaluate both lung and right heart metabolism and function in pulmonary hypertension, correlating well with traditional right ventricular assessments.
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invasive metabolic marker of RV dysfunction in PH, but should not yet change practice.
Saygın et al. (2017) studied this question.
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