Myocardial perfusion assessment in patients with medium probability of coronary artery disease and no prior myocardial infarction: Comparison of myocardial contrast echocardiography with 99mTc single-photon emission computed tomography

American Heart Journal

Volumn 147, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1100-1105

  Senior, Roxy ^a   Lepper, Wolfgang ^b   Pasquet, Agnes ^c   Chung, George ^a   Hoffman, Rainer ^b   Vanoverschelde, Jean Louis ^c   Cerqueira, Manuel ^d   Kaul, Sanjiv ^e  

^a NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^c CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CIRCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY DISEASE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 3042770848     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2003.12.030     Document Type: Article

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