Multislice Computed Tomographic Coronary Angiography for Quantitative Assessment of Culprit Lesions in Acute Coronary Syndromes

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 364-371

  Benedek, Theodora ^a   Gyöngyösi, Mariann ^b   Benedek, Imre ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Medical Center Cardiomed   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOPAMIDOL;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84874341627     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2012.11.004     Document Type: Article

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