Combined coronary and mitral annulus calcium detection in the non-invasive diagnosis of coronary artery disease in patients with systemic hypertension

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 113-117

  Tenenbaum, Alexander ^a   Fisman, Enrique Z ^a   Shemesh, Joseph ^a   Adler, Yehuda ^a   Shenkman, Tzipi ^a   Swissa Cohen, Levana ^a   Boyko, Valentina ^a   Motro, Michael ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Calcification; Coronary artery disease; CT spiral; Hypertension; Mitral annulus

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; CALCIUM; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036257030     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019501-200204000-00006     Document Type: Article

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