Rest perfusion defects in patients with no history of myocardial infarction predict the presence of a critical coronary artery stenosis

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 656-662

  Aboul Enein, Fatma A ^a   Hayes, Sean W ^a,b   Matsumoto, Naoya ^a   Friedman, John D ^a,b   Germano, Guido ^b   Berman, Daniel S ^a,b  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography; Perfusion defect; Rest stress sequence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0347031183     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2003.07.002     Document Type: Article

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