Accurate detection of coronary artery disease by integrated analysis of the ST-segment depression/heart rate patterns during the exercise and recovery phases of the exercise electrocardiography test

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1002-1006

  Lehtinen, Rami ^a   Sievänen, Harri ^b   Viik, Jari ^b   Turjanmaa, Väinö ^b   Niemelä, Kari ^b   Malmivuo, Jaakko ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; ROC CURVE; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; ROC CURVE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030293224     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(96)00524-3     Document Type: Article

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