Role of imaging for acute chest pain syndromes

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 71-81

  Ghatak, Abhijit ^a   Hendel, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; THALLIUM 201; TROPONIN;

ACUTE CHEST SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX PAIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHEST PAIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84874067359     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: 15584623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2012.10.002     Document Type: Article

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