Challenge of identifying patients with diabetes mellitus who are at low risk for coronary events by use of cardiac stress imaging

Stress echocardiography and single photon emission computed tomographic (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging studies have been extensively studied and firmly established as excellent tools for the prognosis and risk stratification in subjects with known or suspected coronary artery disease (CAD).1-3...

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Published in:The American heart journal 2004-04, Vol.147 (4), p.561-563
Main Authors: Kamalesh, Masoor, Feigenbaum, Harvey, Sawada, Stephen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Atherosclerosis
Biological and medical sciences
Cardiology
Cardiology. Vascular system
Cardiovascular disease
Coronary Disease - diagnosis
Coronary Disease - etiology
Coronary heart disease
Diabetes
Diabetes Complications
Echocardiography, Stress
Heart
Heart attacks
Humans
Ischemia
Medical imaging
Medical prognosis
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Mortality
Population
Risk Factors
Studies
Thallium Radioisotopes
Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
Ultrasonic imaging
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Summary:Stress echocardiography and single photon emission computed tomographic (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging studies have been extensively studied and firmly established as excellent tools for the prognosis and risk stratification in subjects with known or suspected coronary artery disease (CAD).1-3 Although the relative strengths and weakness of the 2 imaging modalities may be debated,4 it appears that a normal study demonstrating no resting abnormalities and no ischemia using either modality predicts a low annual risk of cardiac events (
ISSN:0002-8703
1097-6744
DOI:10.1016/j.ahj.2003.12.012