Folate therapy improves the stress-to-rest mean LV volume ratio in myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with diabetes

Alireza Emami-Ardekani,Alireza Esteghamati,Saeed Farzanefar,Mohammadtaghi Abousaidi,Mehrshad Abbasi,Soraya Abdollahi,Babak Fallahi,Davood Beiki,Armaghan Fard-Esfahani,Manouchehr Nakhjavani,M. Eftekhari

Folate therapy improves the stress-to-rest mean LV volume ratio in myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with diabetes

2015

Alireza Emami-Ardekani
Alireza Esteghamati
Saeed Farzanefar
Mohammadtaghi Abousaidi
Mehrshad Abbasi
Soraya Abdollahi
Babak Fallahi
Davood Beiki
Armaghan Fard-Esfahani
Manouchehr Nakhjavani
M. Eftekhari

Objective Patients with diabetes have higher stress-to-rest mean left ventricular volume (SRLVV) ratio in myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) and hyperhomocysteinemia. We studied the effect of folate therapy on SRLVV ratio and plasma homocysteine levels in patients with diabetes.

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Cardiology
Internal medicine
Homocysteine levels
Medicine
Hyperhomocysteinemia
Endothelial dysfunction
Myocardial perfusion imaging
Diabetes mellitus
plasma homocysteine
in patient
ventricular volume

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