What does the clinical cardiologist need from noninvasive cardiac imaging: Is it time to adjust practices to meet evolving demands?

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 366-370

  Wijns, William ^a   De Bruyne, Bernard ^a   Vanhoenacker, Piet K ^b  

^a CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Belgium)

^b OLV HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN 15;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIOLOGIST; CARDIOLOGY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG ELUTING STENT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATIENT CARE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SUDDEN DEATH; TECHNOLOGY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; CARDIOLOGY; CLINICAL MEDICINE; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249707742     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2007.04.016     Document Type: Review

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