Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy as a screening method for significant coronary artery stenosis in cardiac transplant recipients

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 873-878

  Carlsen, Jørn ^a   Toft, Jens C ^b   Mortensen, Svend Aage ^a   Arendrup, Henrik ^a   Aldershvile, Jan ^a   Hesse, Birger ^b  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b Ctr of Imaging Info/Eng in Med   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0033797359     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-2498(00)00167-4     Document Type: Article

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