The usefulness of dipyridamole thallium-201 single photon emission computed tomography for predicting perioperative cardiac events in patients undergoing non-cardiac vascular surgery

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 45-53

  Chen, Tao ^a   Kuwabara, Yasuo ^a   Tsutsui, Hiroyuki ^a   Sasaki, Masayuki ^a   Nakagawa, Makoto ^a   Koga, Hirofumi ^a   Kaneko, Kouichirou ^a   Komori, Kimihiro ^a   Masuda, Kouji ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dipyridamole; Perioperative cardiac event; SPECT; T1 201; Vascular diseases

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; THALLIUM 201;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; JAPAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS OBLITERANS; COMORBIDITY; DIPYRIDAMOLE; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0036220592     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02995291     Document Type: Article

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