15-Year outcome after normal exercise 99mTcsestamibi myocardial perfusion imaging: What is the duration of low risk after a normal scan?

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 901-906

  Schinkel, Arend F L ^a   Boiten, Henk J ^a   Van Der Sijde, Jors N ^a   Ruitinga, Pauline R ^a   Sijbrands, Eric J G ^a   Valkema, Roelf ^a   Van Domburg, Ron T ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coronary disease; Follow up studies; Prognosis; Radioisotopes

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE AT REST; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART RATE AT REST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NONFATAL MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PEAK EXERCISE HEART RATE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RISK; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84868211827     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: 15326551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-012-9587-9     Document Type: Article

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