Clinical and angiographic significance of a normal thallium-201 tomographic study in patients with a strongly positive exercise electrocardiogram

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 638-641

  He, Zuo Xiang ^a,b   Dakik, Habib A ^a   Vaduganathan, Periyanan ^a   Qureshi, Usman ^a   Mahmarian, John J ^a   Verani, Mario S ^a  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b FUWAI HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; THALLIUM;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030587220     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(96)00385-2     Document Type: Article

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