Outcomes after inappropriate nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging: A meta-analysis

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 680-689

  Elgendy, Islam Y ^a   Mahmoud, Ahmed ^a   Shuster, Jonathan J ^b   Doukky, Rami ^c   Winchester, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ischemia; myocardial; Myocardial perfusion imaging; PET; SPECT

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; MALE; MEDLINE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREVALENCE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; UTILIZATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDLINE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 84938809367     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: 15326551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-015-0240-2     Document Type: Article

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