Yield of downstream tests after exercise treadmill testing: A prospective cohort study

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 63, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 1264-1274

  Christman, Mitalee P ^a   Bittencourt, Marcio Sommer ^b   Hulten, Edward ^b   Saksena, Ekta ^c   Hainer, Jon ^b   Skali, Hicham ^b   Kwong, Raymond Y ^b   Forman, Daniel E ^b   Dorbala, Sharmila ^b   O'Gara, Patrick T ^b   Di Carli, Marcelo F ^b   Blankstein, Ron ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

downstream testing; exercise testing; imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; TREADMILL TEST; AGE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DOWNSTREAM NON INVASIVE IMAGING; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; METABOLIC EQUIVALENT; MIDDLE AGED; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

DOWNSTREAM TESTING; EXERCISE TESTING; IMAGING;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84897418143     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.11.052     Document Type: Article

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