Decision Making in Multivessel Coronary Disease. The Need for Physiological Lesion Assessment

JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 315-317

  Beller, George A ^a   Ragosta, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary artery disease; fractional flow reserve; myocardial perfusion imaging; positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; EDITORIAL; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADENOSINE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 77949335822     PISSN: 19368798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2010.01.007     Document Type: Editorial

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