Detection of myocardial ischemia in the elderly versus the young by stress thallium-201 scintigraphy and its relation to important coronary artery disease

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 131-136

  Psirropoulos, D ^a   Efthimiadis, Apostolos ^a   Boudonas, Georgios ^a   Papadopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Papadopoulos, Georgios ^a   Ekklisiarchos, Dimos ^a   Parthenis, Marios ^a   Constantinidis, Theodoros ^a   Lefkos, Nikolaos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Elderly; Important coronary artery disease; Predictive values; Sensitivity; Stress thallium scintigraphy; Young

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; THALLIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOSTATISTICS; BONE DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART STRESS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TREADMILL EXERCISE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; AGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; GREECE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREVALENCE; SCINTISCANNING; STATISTICS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036000359     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003800200009     Document Type: Article

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