Superiority of exercise myocardial perfusion imaging compared with the exercise ECG in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 399-404

  Bokhari, Sabahat ^a   Shahzad, Arsalan ^a   Bergmann, Steven R ^a,b  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac catheterization; Stenosis; Stress testing

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART RATE; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; THORAX PAIN; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 58149312842     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCA.0b013e3283021ab4     Document Type: Article

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