ArticleEuropean journal of nuclear medicine1995
Sympathetic re-innervation after heart transplantation: dual-isotope neurotransmitter scintigraphy, norepinephrine content and histological examination.
Article in European journal of nuclear medicine, 1995. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Early Denervation and Later Reinnervation of the Heart Following Cardiac Transplantation: A Review.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2016Review
- Neuronal imaging using SPECT.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2007Review
- Neuronal imaging using SPECT.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2007Review
- What is the current status of quantification and nuclear medicine in cardiology?European journal of nuclear medicine · 1996Review
- MIBG imaging.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear CardiologyReview
- I-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine imaging in non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients with normal myocardial perfusion scans: new insights into their increased cardiac morbidity and mortality rates.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear CardiologyArticle
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Abstract
Cardiac transplantation entails surgical disruption of the sympathetic nerve fibres from their somata, resulting in sympathetic denervation. In order to investigate the occurrence of sympathetic re-innervation, neurotransmitter scintigraphy using the norepinephrine analogue iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) was performed in 15 patients 2-69 months after transplantation. In addition, norepinephrine content and immunohistochemical reactions of antibodies to Schwann cell-associated S100 protein, to neuron-specific enolase (NSE) and to norepinephrine were examined in 34 endomyocardial biopsies of 29 patients 1-88 months after transplantation. Anterobasal 123I-MIBG uptake indicating partial sympathetic re-innervation could be shown in 40% of the scintigraphically investigated patients 37-69 months after transplantation. In immunohistochemical studies 83% of the patients investigated 1-72 months after transplantation showed nerve fibres in their biopsies but not positive reaction to norepinephrine. Significant norepinephrine content indicating re-innervation could not be detected in any biopsy. It was concluded that in spite of the lack of norepinephrine content there seemed to be immunohistological and scintigraphic evidence of sympathetic re-innervation. An explanation for this contradictory finding may be the reduced or missing norepinephrine storage ability compared to the restored uptake ability of regenerated sympathetic nerve fibres.
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