Low fingertip temperature rebound measured by digital thermal monitoring strongly correlates with the presence and extent of coronary artery disease diagnosed by 64-slice multi-detector computed tomography

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 725-738

  Ahmadi, Naser ^a   Nabavi, Vahid ^a   Nuguri, Vivek ^a   Hajsadeghi, Fereshteh ^a   Flores, Ferdinand ^a   Akhtar, Mohammad ^d   Kleis, Stanley ^d   Hecht, Harvey ^c   Naghavi, Morteza ^b   Budoff, Matthew ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b American Heart Technologies   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography angiography; Coronary artery disease; Digital thermal monitoring; Framingham risk score

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE MONITORING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL THERMAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW FINGERTIP TEMPERATURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROVASCULAR ACTIVITY; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

AGED; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 69249232031     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-009-9476-8     Document Type: Article

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