Selecting the best noninvasive imaging test to guide treatment after an inconclusive exercise test

Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 8-23

  Koh, Angela S ^a   Blankstein, Ron ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac CT; Cardiac MRI; Coronary artery disease; Exercise stress test; Myocardial perfusion imaging; Noninvasive cardiac imaging

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

EID: 84857795850     PISSN: 10928464     EISSN: 15343189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11936-011-0161-6     Document Type: Article

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