Very high coronary calcium score unmasks obstructive coronary artery disease in patients with normal SPECT MPI

Heart

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 998-1003

  Ghadri, Jelena R ^a   Pazhenkottil, Aju P ^a   Nkoulou, Rene N ^a   Goetti, Robert ^a   Buechel, Ronny R ^a   Husmann, Lars ^a   Herzog, Bernhard A ^a   Wolfrum, Mathias ^a   Wyss, Christophe A ^a   Templin, Christian ^a   Kaufmann, Philipp A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCINOSIS; CALCIUM; CARDIAC-GATED SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER-ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 79956292023     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2010.217281     Document Type: Article

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