Threshold, incidence, and predictors of prognostically high-risk silent ischemia in asymptomatic patients without prior diagnosis of coronary artery disease

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 193-200

  Zellweger, Michael J ^a,b,d   Hachamovitch, Rory ^c   Kang, Xingping ^a,b   Hayes, Sean W ^a,b   Friedman, John D ^a,b   Germano, Guido ^a,b   Berman, Daniel S ^a,b  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University Hospital ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Myocardial perfusion SPECT; Prognosis; Silent myocardial ischemia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECG ABNORMALITY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SILENT MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; TREADMILL EXERCISE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCINTISCANNING; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

AGED; CALIFORNIA; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI;

EID: 67649975966     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-008-9016-2     Document Type: Article

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