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heart-to-mediastinum ratio: a standalone construct

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Nuclear medicine

the ratio of cardiac to mediastinal counts on MIBG imaging, an index of cardiac sympathetic innervation that predicts events in heart failure.

In nuclear medicine, heart-to-mediastinum ratio refers to the ratio of cardiac to mediastinal counts on MIBG imaging, an index of cardiac sympathetic innervation that predicts events in heart failure. This meaning comes from Jacobson (2010) in Journal of the American College of Cardiology.[1]

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Jacobson, A. F., Senior, R., Cerqueira, M. D., Wong, N. D., Thomas, G. S., Lopez, V. A., Agostini, D., Weiland, F., Chandna, H., & Narula, J. (2010). Myocardial Iodine-123 Meta-Iodobenzylguanidine Imaging and Cardiac Events in Heart Failure. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 55(20), 2212-2221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2010.01.014

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