Clinical value of acute rest technetium-99m tetrofosmin tomographic myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with acute chest pain and nondiagnostic electrocardiograms

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1011-1017

  Heller, Gary V ^a,g   Stowers, Stephen A ^b   Hendel, Robert C ^c   Herman, Steven D ^d   Daher, Edouard ^a   Ahlberg, Alan W ^a   Baron, Jack M ^e   Mendes De Leon, Carlos F ^c   Rizzo, John A ^f   Wackers, Frans J Th ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b St Luke's Medical Center   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; ROC CURVE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0032054687     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00057-6     Document Type: Article

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