Does inadequate exercise lower the accuracy of myocardial perfusion scintigraphy?

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 625-629

  Peng, N J ^a   Mar, G Y ^a   Liu, C P ^a   Jao, G H ^a   Lee, D ^a   Liang, H L ^a   Tsay, D G ^a   Chen, C C ^a   Liu, R S ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Coronary angiography; Coronary artery disease; Exercise; Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THALLIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034986921     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200106000-00004     Document Type: Review

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