This Article Abstract Full Text Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Nakamura, T. Articles by Nishimura, T. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Nakamura, T. Articles by Nishimura, T.

Increased plasma brain natriuretic peptide level as a guide for silent myocardial ischemia in patients with non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Tomoki Nakamura, MD^*,*, Kenzo Sakamoto, MD, Tetsuhiro Yamano, MD, Masayuki Kikkawa, MD^*, Kan Zen, MD, Takato Hikosaka, MD, Takao Kubota, MD^*, Akihiro Azuma, MD, PhD and Tsunehiko Nishimura, MD, PhD^*

^* Department of Radiology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
Second Department of Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

View larger version (56K): [in a new window]   figure 1 Exercise (top) and rest (bottom) tomographic images with 99mtc-tetrofosmin obtained from a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. apparent left ventricular cavity dilation is noted. reversible regional perfusion abnormality is also observed at anteroseptal and posteroseptal areas of junction and extended to the adjacent portions of anterior and posterior free walls.

View larger version (106K): [in a new window]   figure 2 Compression of septal branches of the left anterior descending coronary artery (lca) (top) and posterior descending branch of the right coronary artery (rca) (arrows, bottom).