Regional distribution and extent of perfusion abnormalities, and the lung to heart uptake ratios during exercise thallium-201 SPECT imaging in patients with cardiac syndrome X

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 57-62

  Cavusoglu, Yuksel ^a   Entok, Emre ^a   Timuralp, Bilgin ^a   Vardareli, Erkan ^a   Kudaiberdieva, Gulmira ^a   Birdane, Alparslan ^a   Gorenek, Bulent ^a   Unalir, Ahmet ^a   Goktekin, Omer ^a   Ata, Necmi ^a  

^a ESKISEHIR OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cardiac syndrome X; Lung to heart ratio; Perfusion abnormalities

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG PERFUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT; SYNDROME X;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY CIRCULATION; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MICROVASCULAR ANGINA; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 20144362688     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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