Use of coronary calcium scanning for predicting inducible myocardial ischemia: Influence of patients' clinical presentation

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 669-679

  Rozanski, Alan ^a   Gransar, Heidi ^a,b   Wong, Nathan D ^d   Shaw, Leslee J ^e   Miranda Peats, Romalisa ^a,b   Hayes, Sean W ^a,b   Friedman, John D ^a,b   Berman, Daniel S ^b,c  

^a ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BURNS AND ALLEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

angiographically significant coronary artery disease; Coronary artery calcium; myocardial perfusion scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CALCIUM; HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIC AGENT; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX PAIN;

CALCIUM; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 34548392599     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2007.07.005     Document Type: Article

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