Correlation between thallium-201 myocardial perfusion defects and the functional severity of coronary artery stenosis as assessed by pressure-derived myocardial fractional flow reserve

Circulation Journal

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1105-1109

  Yanagisawa, Hidefumi ^a   Chikamori, Taishiro ^a   Tanaka, Nobuhiro ^a   Hatano, Tsuguhisa ^a   Morishima, Takayuki ^a   Hida, Satoshi ^a   Iino, Hitoshi ^a   Amaya, Kazutaka ^a   Takazawa, Kenji ^a   Yamashina, Akira ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Coronary circulation; Fractional flow reserve; Thallium myocardial imaging

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; THALLIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY PRESSURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0036894361     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.66.1105     Document Type: Article

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