Effectiveness of nuclear scan strategy in low-risk chest pain patients: Novel insights from the real world

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1223-1230

  Conti, Alberto ^a   Luzzi, Margherita ^a   Nanna, Cristina ^a   Gallini, Chiara ^a   Costanzo, Egidio ^a   Vaggelli, Luca ^a   Padeletti, Luigi ^a   Franco Gensini, Gian ^a  

^a CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

coronary artery disease; exercise stress testing; myocardial ischemia; myocardial perfusion imaging; prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; PHARMACOLOGICAL MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIATION HAZARD; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX PAIN; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ADENOSINE; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 80455168279     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e32834a7182     Document Type: Article

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