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Autonomic Imaging in Heart Transplantation

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Sympathetic reinnervation of the transplanted heart is a unique example of the plasticity and regenerative capacity of the autonomic nervous system. Radionuclide imaging studies have played a key role in demonstrating that cardiac allografts regain catecholamine storage capacity, i.e., functional sympathetic nerve terminals after complete denervation due to transplant surgery. Since its initial demonstration, the regionally heterogeneous pattern of reinnervation, its time course and determinants, as well as its functional effects on the transplanted heart have been described in detail, as summarized in this chapter.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, Hannover, D-30625, Germany

    Frank M. Bengel MD

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  1. Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Riemer H.J.A. Slart

  2. Thorax center Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    René A. Tio

  3. Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Philip H. Elsinga

  4. Nuklearmedizinische Klinik, Klinikum Rechts der Isar Technische Universität München, München, Germany

    Markus Schwaiger

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Bengel, F.M. (2015). Autonomic Imaging in Heart Transplantation. In: Slart, R., Tio, R., Elsinga, P., Schwaiger, M. (eds) Autonomic Innervation of the Heart. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45074-1_17

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