Does imaging-guided selection of patients with ischemic heart failure for high risk revascularization improve identification of those with the highest clinical benefit?: Myocardial imaging should not exclude patients with ischemic heart failure from coronary revascularization

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 271-279

  Velazquez, Eric J ^a  

^a DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; RADIOISOTOPE; TECHNETIUM; THALLIUM;

ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEFT VENTRICULAR SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; MALE; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; MYOCARDIUM; PATIENT SELECTION;

EID: 84860815588     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.111.964650     Document Type: Article

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