Relevance of increased lung thallium uptake on stress imaging in patients with unstable angina and non-Q wave myocardial infarction: Results of the thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (TIMI)-IIIB study

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 421-429

  Jain, Diwakar ^a   Thompson, Bruce ^a   Wackers, Frans J Th ^a   Zaret, Barry L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; THALLIUM 201;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY RISK; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCINTIANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ANGINA, UNSTABLE; BODY WEIGHT; DIPYRIDAMOLE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; SEX FACTORS; STROKE VOLUME; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0030837974     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(97)00164-2     Document Type: Article

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