SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging as an adjunct to coronary calcium score for the detection of hemodynamically significant coronary artery stenosis

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  von Ziegler, Franz ^a   Brendel, Michaela ^a   Uebleis, Christopher ^a   Helbig, Susanne ^a   Greif, Martin ^a   Ruemmler, Janine ^a   Becker, Christoph ^a   Hacker, Marcus ^a   Steinbeck, Gerhard ^a   Becker, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography coronary calcium scoring; Coronary artery disease; Invasive coronary angiography; Single photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84870307324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2261-12-116     Document Type: Article

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