Head-to-head comparison of dobutamine stress echocardiography and cardiac computed tomography for the detection of significant coronary artery disease

Cardiology

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 81-86

  Nixdorff, Uwe ^a   Küfner, Claudia ^b   Achenbach, Stephan ^b   Stilianakis, Nikolas ^b,c   Voigt, Jens Uwe ^d   Flachskampf, Frank A ^b   Daniel, Werner G ^b   Ropers, Dieter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cardiac computer tomography; Coronary artery disease; Coronary calcium; Dobutamine stress echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 43049111079     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000110484     Document Type: Article

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