Should imaging at stress always be followed by imaging at rest in Tc-99m MIBI SPECT? A proposal for a selective referral and imaging strategy

International Journal of Cardiac Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 323-329

  Schroeder Tanka, Jutta M ^a   Tiel van Buul, Monique M C ^a   Van Der Wall, Ernst E ^b   Roolker, Wesselina ^a   Lie, Kong I ^a   Van Royen, Eric A ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Exercise electrocardiography; Imaging strategy; Myocardial infarction; Myocardial perfusion; Myocardial scintigraphy; Technetium 99m MIBI imaging

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REFERENCE VALUES; REST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030876230     PISSN: 01679899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005767823114     Document Type: Article

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