Prognostic utility of carotid ultrasound and cardiac SPECT imaging in coronary artery bypass patients

Nuclear Medicine Review

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 12-17

  Bosevski, Marijan ^a   Peovska, I ^a   Maksimovic, J ^a   Vavlukis, M ^a   Meskovska, S ^b  

^a Clinical Centre   (Macedonia)

^b Permanence Medico Chirurgical de Chenterpolet   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carotid plaque; Coronary artery bypass surgery; Intima media thickness; Myocardial viability; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; NITRATE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CALCULATION; CAROTID ARTERY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OBESITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOUND DETECTION; THICKNESS;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERIES; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; PERFUSION; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33745901050     PISSN: 15069680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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