Role of coronary spasm for a positive noninvasive stress test result in angina pectoris patients without hemodynamically significant coronary artery disease

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 335, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 354-362

  Cheng, Chi Wen ^a   Yang, Ning I ^a,b   Kun Ju, Lin ^a,b   Hung, Ming Jui ^a,b   Cherng, Wen Jin ^a,b  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Coronary spasm; Exercisetesting; Thallium 201 tomography

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; METHYLERGOMETRINE; THALLIUM 201; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; ERGOMETRINE; THALLIUM;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; THORAX PAIN; VASOSPASM; AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VASOSPASM; DIPYRIDAMOLE; ERGONOVINE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 45549086380     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e31815681b2     Document Type: Article

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