Prognosis in patients achieving ≥10 METS on exercise stress testing: Was SPECT imaging useful?

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 230-237

  Bourque, Jamieson M ^a   Charlton, George T ^a   Holland, Benjamin H ^b   Belyea, Christopher M ^a   Watson, Denny D ^a   Beller, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Exercise stress testing; Outcomes; Radionuclide imaging; Risk prediction

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART PERFUSION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC EQUIVALENT; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 79958204673     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: 15326551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-010-9323-2     Document Type: Article

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