Role of multimodality cardiac imaging in preoperative cardiovascular evaluation before noncardiac surgery

Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 134-145

  Fathala, Ahmed ^a   Hassan, Walid ^b,c  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^b King Faisal Specialty Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

^c TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac CT; cardiac imaging; cardiac MR; cardiac SPECT; preoperative evaluation; stress echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; RADIOISOTOPE;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL RISK; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EXERCISE TEST; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STROKE VOLUME; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 79958756179     PISSN: 09719784     EISSN: 09745181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0971-9784.81570     Document Type: Article

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