Effect of the stress level achieved during symptom-limited exercise technetium-99m sestamibi myocardial tomography on the detection of coronary artery disease

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 787-792

  Stratmann, Henry G ^a   Younis, Liwa T ^a   Wittry, Mark D ^a   Amato, Maryellen ^a   Mark, Alexander L ^a   Miller, D Douglas ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary disease; emission computed; exercise test; single photon; technetium 99m sestamibi; tomography

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXERCISE TEST; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RATE; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0029807445     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960191006     Document Type: Article

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