Sixth Annual Mario S. Verani, MD Memorial Lecture: Cardiovascular imaging-Added value or added cost?

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 170-177

  Bonow, Robert O ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; CALCIUM; CONTRAST MEDIUM; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGIST; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPIDEMIC; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE TEST; FLUOROSCOPY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PUBLISHING; QUALITY OF LIFE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERNATIONALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 40949150795     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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