The relationship between coronary artery calcification detected by non-gated multi-detector CT in patients with suspected ischemic heart disease and myocardial ischemia detected by thallium exercise stress testing

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 647-653

  Nishida, Chikako ^a   Okajima, Kaoru ^a   Kudo, Takashi ^b,c   Yamamoto, Takashi ^a   Hattori, Ryuichi ^a   Nishimura, Yasumasa ^b  

^a KINDAI UNIVERSITY NARA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Shiga Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcification; Coronary vessels; Ischemic heart disease radionuclide studies; MDCT; Risk factors for ischemic heart disease

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PROGNOSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; THALLIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 31744437182     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: 09147187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02985112     Document Type: Article

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