Technetium-99m-sestamibi redistribution after exercise stress test identified by a novel cardiac gamma camera: Two case reports

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Sheikine, Yuri ^a   Berman, Daniel S ^b   Di Carli, Marcelo F ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ATENOLOL; CLOPIDOGREL; ISOSORBIDE 5 NITRATE; LISINOPRIL; METFORMIN; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; SIMVASTATIN;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGY; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE TEST; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXERCISE TEST; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 77950792791     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20519     Document Type: Article

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