Improved Noninvasive Assessment of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts With 64-Slice Computed Tomographic Angiography in an Unselected Patient Population

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 946-950

  Meyer, Tanja S ^a   Martinoff, Stefan ^a   Hadamitzky, Martin ^a   Will, Albrecht ^a   Kastrati, Adnan ^a   Schömig, Albert ^a   Hausleiter, Jörg ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARRHYTHMIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY STENOSIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 33847252013     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2006.10.066     Document Type: Article

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