Dipyridamole-echocardiography and thallium exercise myocardial scintigraphy in the diagnosis of obstructive coronaropathy or microvascular disease in hypertensive patients with left ventricular hypertrophy and angina;Eco-dipiridamolo e miocardioscintigrafia da sforzo al tallio nella diagnosi di coronaropatia ostruttiva o malattia microvascolare in pazienti ipertesi con ipertrofia ventricolare sinistra e angina

Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 996-1004

  Astarita, Costantino ^a,b   Nicolai, Emanuele ^a   Liguori, Erminio ^a   Gambardella, Salvatore ^a   Rumolo, Salvatore ^a   Maresca, Francesco Saverio ^a  

^a Regione Campania ASL NA 5

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coronary heart disease; Dipyridamole; Hypertension; Myocardial scintigraphy; Stress echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; CORONARY DISEASE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MICROVASCULAR ANGINA; MIDDLE AGED; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0031684523     PISSN: 00465968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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