Assessment of myocardial viability by radionuclide and echocardiographic techniques: Is it simply a sensitivity and specificity issue?

Current Opinion in Cardiology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 450-456

  Arrighi, James A ^a,b   Dilsizian, Vasken ^c,d  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary disease; Emission computed; Myocardial revascularization; Myocardial stunning; Single photon; Tomography

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; TRACER;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOBUTAMINE STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE METABOLISM; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE SURVIVAL; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33747059030     PISSN: 02684705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.hco.0000240581.89805.4d     Document Type: Review

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