Vascular dysfunction measured by fingertip thermal monitoring is associated with the extent of myocardial perfusion defect

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 431-439

  Ahmadi, Naser ^a   Usman, Nudrat ^a   Shim, John ^a   Nuguri, Vivek ^a   Vasinrapee, Panukorn ^a   Hajsadeghi, Fereshteh ^a   Wang, Zhiying ^b   Foster, Gary P ^c   Nasir, Khurram ^d   Hecht, Harvey ^e   Naghavi, Morteza ^d   Budoff, Matthew ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Association for Eradication of Heart Attack   (United States)

^e LENOX HILL HEART AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital thermal monitoring; Myocardial perfusion defect; Myocardial perfusion imaging

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BODY TEMPERATURE MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CUFF; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; THORAX PAIN; VASCULAR DISEASE; HEART SCINTISCANNING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; THERMOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; THERMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 68049133071     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-008-9044-y     Document Type: Article

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