Thallium-201 myocardial SPECT in left bundle branch block: Diagnosis of myocardial ischemia with a disease-specific reference database

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 521-530

  Zupán, Kristóf ^a   Kári, Béla ^a   Fontos, Géza ^b   Dékány, Péter ^b   Pártos, Oszkár ^b  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b Hungarian Institute of Cardiology   (Hungary)

Author keywords

coronary artery disease; image processing; left bundle branch block; Myocardial perfusion imaging; reference database; SPECT

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPYRIDAMOLE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; THALLIUM 201;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RISK; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE DATABASE; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; THALLIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33746986584     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2006.03.006     Document Type: Article

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