Exercise testing with myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with normal baseline electrocardiograms: Cost savings with a stepwise diagnostic strategy

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 498-506

  Mattera, Jennifer A ^b   Arain, Shakoor A ^a   Sinusas, Albert J ^a   Finta, Laurie ^a   Wackers, Frans J Th ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost savings; Electrocardiography; Exercise; Imaging; Radionuclide myocardial perfusion

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST CONTROL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 0031788007     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1071-3581(98)90181-7     Document Type: Article

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