Diagnosis of coronary artery disease with TI-201 SPECT in patients with left bundle branch block: Importance of alternative interpretation approaches for left anterior descending coronary lesions

Angiology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 103-108

  Tandoǧan, Izzet ^a   Yetkin, Ertan ^a   Ileri, Mehmet ^a   Ortapamuk, Hulya ^a   Yanik, Ahmet ^a   Çehreli, Sengul ^a   Duru, Erdal ^a  

^a NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SCINTIGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT; THORAX PAIN;

BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0035112984     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000331970105200203     Document Type: Article

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