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Impact of exercise single-photon emission computed tomographic imaging on appropriateness of coronary
A M Amanullah1, J Heo, A E Iskandrian
1Department of Medicine, MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine, Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, USA.
The American Journal of Cardiology
|June 30, 1998
Abstract:
This study examined the predictors of early coronary revascularization in 816 patients with chest pain syndromes who had coronary artery disease by angiography and exercise single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) thallium imaging. Multivariate analysis of clinical, stress, nuclear, and catheterization variables revealed the presence of SPECT reversibility as the most powerful predictor (chi-square = 43) of early revascularization.