Association of exercise-induced ventricular ectopic activity with thallium myocardial perfusion and angiographic coronary artery disease in stable, low-risk populations

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 530-534

  Schweikert, Robert A ^a   Pashkow, Fredric J ^a   Snader, Claire E ^a   Marwick, Thomas H ^a   Lauer, Michael S ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES;

EID: 0033557523     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(98)00908-4     Document Type: Article

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