Coronary calcium score as an adjunct to nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging for risk stratification before noncardiac surgery

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1081-1086

  Ghadri, Jelena R ^a   Fiechter, Michael ^a,b   Veraguth, Katja ^a   Gebhard, Catherine ^a   Pazhenkottil, Aju P ^a   Fuchs, Tobias A ^a   Templin, Christian ^b   Gaemperli, Oliver ^a,b   Kaufmann, Philipp A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Calcium score; Noncardiac surgery; Preoperative risk stratification; SPECT MPI

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; STATIN; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STROKE; SUDDEN DEATH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CALCIUM; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84863493199     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.111.100206     Document Type: Article

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