Real-time perfusion adenosine stress echocardiography versus myocardial perfusion adenosine scintigraphy for the detection of myocardial ischaemia in patients with stable coronary artery disease

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 32-38

  Gudmundsson, Petri ^a,b   Winter, R ^c   Dencker, M ^a   Kitlinski, M ^a   Thorsson, O ^a   Ljunggren, L ^b   Willenheimer, R ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MALMÖ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bedside; Coronary insufficiency; Myocardial contrast echocardiography; Power modulation; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; NITRATE; SONOVUE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; REST; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADENOSINE; AGED; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 33644891944     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2005.00646.x     Document Type: Article

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