Editorial: Adding calcium scoring to myocardial perfusion imaging: Does it alter physicians' therapeutic decision making?

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 168-171

  Blankstein, Ron ^a   Dorbala, Sharmila ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; ATORVASTATIN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID;

ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EDITORIAL; HEART FAILURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; CARDIOLOGY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PERFUSION; SCINTISCANNING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CALCIUM; CARDIOLOGY; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HEART; HUMANS; MYOCARDIUM; PERFUSION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953323654     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-009-9185-7     Document Type: Editorial

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