Relationship Between Coronary Artery Calcification Detected by Electron-Beam Computed Tomography and Abnormal Stress Echocardiography. Association and Prognostic Implications

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2125-2131

  Ramakrishna, Gautam ^a   Breen, Jerome F ^a   Mulvagh, Sharon L ^a   McCully, Robert B ^a   Pellikka, Patricia A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THORAX PAIN;

AGED; AGING; CALCINOSIS; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750935810     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2006.04.105     Document Type: Article

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