Enhanced prognostic stratification of CAD patients with low ejection fraction by stress-rest Tc99m tetrofosmin gated-spect

Acta Cardiologica

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-23

  Bestetti, Alberto ^a,c   Triulzi, Antonio ^a   Di Leo, Claudio ^a   Tagliabue, Luca ^a   Strinchini, Aldo ^a   Bax, Jeroen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c SAN PAOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

99mTc tetrofosmin; Dilated ventricle; Gated SPECT; Low ejection fraction

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE MB; DIPYRIDAMOLE; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; EXERCISE TEST; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PROGNOSIS; STROKE VOLUME; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 1242339708     PISSN: 00015385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2143/AC.59.1.2005154     Document Type: Article

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