Priceless clinical pearls in the performance of cardiac CT

Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Lepor, Norman E ^a,b   Madyoon, Hooman ^a,b   Friede, Gerald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Westside Medical Imaging   (United States)

Author keywords

64 slice CT; Cardiac CT; CT coronary angiography

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOHEXOL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTHRALGIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; ECZEMA; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHRODERMA; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; HYPOTENSION; IMAGE QUALITY; KIDNEY DISEASE; MALAISE; MORTALITY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PACEMAKER; PAROTITIS; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RASH; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX PAIN; URTICARIA; WHEEZING;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 42249100006     PISSN: 15306550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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