Enhancing risk prediction with PET coronary flow reserve: Can it be clinically useful?

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1035-1036

  Sheth, Tej ^a   Yusuf, Salim ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

coronary artery disease; coronary flow reserve; imaging

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; CORONARY RISK; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; NOTE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESTENOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; SCREENING TEST;

EID: 84867342345     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2012.08.005     Document Type: Editorial

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