Blunted heart rate response as a predictor of cardiac death in patients undergoing vasodilator stress technetium-99m sestamibi gated SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 617-624

  Mathur, Shishir ^a   Shah, Anuj R ^a   Ahlberg, Alan W ^a   Katten, Deborah M ^a   Heller, Gary V ^a  

^a HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dipyridamole; Myocardial perfusion imaging; Pharmacologic stress; SPECT; Technetium 99m; Vasodilator stress

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIPYRIDAMOLE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CONNECTICUT; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DIPYRIDAMOLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 84755160700     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-010-9242-2     Document Type: Article

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