Prediction of late cardiac events by dipyridamole thallium scintigraphy in patients with intermittent claudication and occult coronary artery disease

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 736-740

  Darbar, Dawood ^a,b   Gillespie, Neil ^a   Main, Gavin ^a   Bridges, Allan B ^a   Kennedy, Norman S J ^a   Pringle, Terence H ^a   McNeill, Graeme P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DIPYRIDAMOLE; THALLIUM;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 0030265897     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(96)00412-2     Document Type: Article

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