Does cardiac SPECT using attenuation and scatter correction accurately predict coronary artery disease in a minority women population?

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Vashist, Aseem ^a,b,c,d   Collins, Dorothea ^a,b   Prasad, Yogendra ^c,d   Blum, Steve ^d,e   Heller, Eliot N ^d,e  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e BRONX LEBANON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Minority; Myocardial perfusion imaging; Women

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DOBUTAMINE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ASIAN AMERICANS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 34548691474     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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