Prediction of myocardial infarction versus cardiac death by gated myocardial perfusion SPECT: Risk stratification by the amount of stress-induced ischemia and the poststress ejection fraction

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 831-837

  Sharir, T ^a   Germano, G ^a   Kang, X ^a   Lewin, H C ^a   Miranda, R ^a   Cohen, I ^a   Agafitei, R D ^a   Friedman, J D ^a   Berman, D S ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gated SPECT; Myocardial perfusion; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART DEATH; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADENOSINE; AGED; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE VOLUME; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034966235     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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