Risk stratification prior to vascular surgery: Does the location of a dipyridamole thallium scintigram defect provide prognostic information?

Cardiology (Switzerland)

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 569-575

  Thuong Nguyen, Tri ^a   Amsterdam, Ezra A ^a   Schaefer, Saul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dipyridamole; Myocardial ischemia; Risk assessment; Surgery; Thallium

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; THALLIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AGED; DIPYRIDAMOLE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RADIONUCLIDE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0030777834     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: 14219751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000177421     Document Type: Article

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