Incremental value of myocardial perfusion over regional left ventricular function and coronary stenosis by cardiac CT for the detection of acute coronary syndromes in high-risk patients: A subgroup analysis of the ROMICAT trial

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 382-391

  Bezerra, Hiram G ^a,b   Loureiro, Ricardo ^a   Irlbeck, Thomas ^a   Bamberg, Fabian ^a   Schlett, Christopher L ^a   Rogers, Ian ^a   Blankstein, Ron ^a   Truong, Quynh A ^a   Brady, Thomas J ^a   Cury, Ricardo C ^a,c   Hoffmann, Udo ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^c BAPTIST CARDIAC AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Cardiac CT; Myocardial perfusion

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX PAIN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 82955173736     PISSN: 19345925     EISSN: 1876861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2011.10.004     Document Type: Article

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