Stress-rest myocardial perfusion SPECT for functional assessment of coronary arteries with anomalous origin or course

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 532-536

  De Luca, Leonardo ^a   Bovenzi, Francesco ^a   Rubini, Domenico ^b   Niccoli Asabella, Artor ^b   Rubini, Giuseppe ^b   De Luca, Italo ^a  

^a POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anomalous coronary arteries; Stress rest 99mTc SPECT; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART FUNCTION; HEART PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY VESSEL MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 2542433274     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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