Achieving an Exercise Workload of ≥10 Metabolic Equivalents Predicts a Very Low Risk of Inducible Ischemia. Does Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Have a Role?

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 538-545

  Bourque, Jamieson M ^a   Holland, Benjamin H ^a   Watson, Denny D ^a   Beller, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary artery disease; exercise capacity; radionuclide imaging; risk prediction

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; WORKLOAD;

AGED; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC EQUIVALENT; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 67651036530     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2009.04.042     Document Type: Article

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