Coronary microvascular reactivity to adenosine predicts adverse outcome in women evaluated for suspected ischemia: results from the National Heart, Lung and …

CJ Pepine, RD Anderson, BL Sharaf, SE Reis… - Journal of the American …, 2010 - jacc.org
Objectives: We investigated whether coronary microvascular dysfunction predicts major
adverse outcomes during follow-up among women with signs and symptoms of ischemia …

The non-invasive documentation of coronary microcirculation impairment: role of transthoracic echocardiography

PP Dimitrow, M Galderisi, F Rigo - Cardiovascular ultrasound, 2005 - Springer
Transthoracic Doppler echocardiographic-derived coronary flow reserve is an useful
hemodynamic index to assess dysfunction of coronary microcirculation. Isolated coronary …

Diretriz de doença coronária estável

LA Cesar, JF Ferreira, D Armaganijan… - Arquivos Brasileiros …, 2014 - SciELO Brasil
Esta diretriz foi elaborada visando orientar todos os médicos, especialmente os
cardiologistas, para o reconhecimento o mais precoce possível de adultos com risco …

Guideline for stable coronary artery disease

LA Cesar, JF Ferreira, D Armaganijan… - Arquivos brasileiros de …, 2014 - SciELO Brasil
SciELO - Brasil - Guideline for Stable Coronary Artery Disease Guideline for Stable Coronary
Artery Disease Acessibilidade / Reportar erro Brasil Lista alfabética de periódicos Lista temática …

Structural abnormalities of the coronary arterial wall—in addition to luminal narrowing—affect myocardial blood flow reserve

R Liga, C Marini, M Coceani, E Filidei… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2011 - Soc Nuclear Med
Multislice CT provides information on coronary luminal narrowing and on the structural
abnormalities of the coronary arterial wall using densitometric analysis. We sought to …

Carotid atherosclerosis is correlated with extent and severity of coronary artery disease evaluated by myocardial perfusion scintigraphy

S Hallerstam, PT Larsson, E Zuber, S Rosfors - Angiology, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
Increased intima-media thickness (IMT) in the common carotid artery (CCA) correlates with
conventional risk factors for cardiovascular disease and is an independent predictor of …

Diagnostic and prognostic value of myocardial perfusion gated SPECT in orthotopic heart transplant recipients

A Manrique, M Bernard, A Hitzel, M Bubenheim… - Journal of nuclear …, 2010 - Elsevier
Background Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) limits long-term survival after heart
transplantation. Diagnostic and prognostic value of gated single photon emission computed …

False-positive stress echocardiograms: a continuing challenge

S Qamruddin - Ochsner Journal, 2016 - ochsnerjournal.org
Background: Stress echocardiography is an integral test in the cardiac diagnostic laboratory
and has high sensitivity and specificity. Despite the excellent specificity of stress …

Detecting occult coronary disease in a high-risk asymptomatic population

RS Blumenthal, DM Becker, LR Yanek, TR Aversano… - Circulation, 2003 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Exercise stress testing alone or with perfusion imaging is the standard
screening method to determine the presence of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) in …

Outcomes in patients with abnormal myocardial perfusion imaging and normal coronary angiogram

KS Delcour, A Khaja, A Chockalingam… - …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
A subset of subjects undergoing myocardial perfusion imaging has perfusion abnormalities
that are subsequently labeled false positive based on coronary angiography. We evaluated …