Absent coronary artery calcium excludes inducible myocardial ischemia on computed tomography/positron emission tomography

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 424-427

  Esteves, Fabio P ^a   Khan, Akbar ^a   Correia, Luis C L ^b   Nye, Jonathon A ^a   Halkar, Raghuveer K ^a   Schuster, David M ^a   Stillman, Arthur ^a   Raggi, Paolo ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Medical School of Bahia   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Coronary calcium scoring; Myocardial perfusion

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; THORAX PAIN;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCIUM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79952486149     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2009.09.550     Document Type: Article

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