Usefulness of real-time myocardial perfusion imaging in the evaluation of patients with first time chest pain

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1225-1231

  Korosoglou, Grigorios ^a,b   Labadze, Nina ^a   Hansen, Alexander ^a   Selter, Christiane ^a   Giannitsis, Evangelos ^a   Katus, Hugo ^a   Kuecherer, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Internal Medicine III   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIANGINA PECTORIS AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; DIGOXIN; DIURETIC AGENT; SONOVUE; TROPONIN T;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MYOCARDITIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORAX PAIN; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CHEST PAIN; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

EID: 7944230252     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2004.07.104     Document Type: Article

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