Thallium scintigraphy in patients with angina at rest.
- 1 May 1988
- Vol. 59 (5), 517-520
- https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.59.5.517
Abstract
Sixty six patients with angina at rest were investigated bye exercise electrocardiography, thallium scintigraphy, and coronary arteriography. A positive exericse electrocardiogram was highly predictive (93%) but poorly sensitive (52%) of coronary artery disease (.gtoreq. 50% stenosis). Thallium scintigraphy was a predictive of the presence of coronary artery disease (91%) but was also highly sensitive (91%). The diagnostic contribution of the thallium scan was greatest in those patients with an inconclusive exercise elecrocardiogram without Q waves.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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