Pharmacologic Stress Imaging

Enhanced Detection of Ischemic but Viable Myocardium by the Reinjection of Thallium after Stress-Redistribution Imaging

1990 • 801 citations

Combining Clinical and Thallium Data Optimizes Preoperative Assessment of Cardiac Risk before Major Vascular Surgery

1989 • 735 citations

Determination of Cardiac Risk by Dipyridamole-Thallium Imaging before Peripheral Vascular Surgery

1985 • 684 citations

Noninvasive assessment of coronary stenoses by myocardial imaging during pharmacologic coronary vasodilatation. III. Clinical trial

1978 • 547 citations

Noninvasive assessment of coronary stenoses by myocardial perfusion imaging during pharmacologie coronary vasodilatation

1978 • 470 citations

Late reversibility of tomographic myocardial thallium-201 defects: An accurate marker of myocardial viability

1988 • 406 citations

Conditions for vasodilator-induced coronary steal in experimental myocardial ischemia.

1978 • 326 citations

Dipyridamole–Thallium-201 Scintigraphy in the Prediction of Future Cardiac Events after Acute Myocardial Infarction

1984 • 324 citations

Assessment of coronary artery disease severity by positron emission tomography. Comparison with quantitative arteriography in 193 patients.

1989 • 324 citations

Serial thallium-201 myocardial imaging after dipyridamole infusion: diagnostic utility in detecting coronary stenoses and relationship to regional wall motion.

1982 • 316 citations

Diagnosis of coronary artery disease by controlled coronary vasodilation with adenosine and thallium-201 scintigraphy in patients unable to exercise.

1990 • 309 citations

The safety of intravenous dipyridamole thallium myocardial perfusion imaging. Intravenous Dipyridamole Thallium Imaging Study Group.

1990 • 294 citations

Noninvasive assessment of coronary stenoses by myocardial perfusion imaging during pharmacologic coronary vasodilation. VIII. Clinical feasibility of positron cardiac imaging without a cyclotron using generator-produced Rubidium-82

1986 • 282 citations

The physiologic basis of dobutamine as compared with dipyridamole stress interventions in the assessment of critical coronary stenosis.

1987 • 244 citations

Regulation of adenosine formation by the heart.

1986 • 209 citations

Angina pectoris-like pain provoked by intravenous adenosine in healthy volunteers.

1986 • 208 citations

Dipyridamole cardiac imaging

1988 • 207 citations

Noninvasive detection and localization of coronary stenoses in patients: Comparison of resting dipyridamole and exercise thallium-201 myocardial perfusion imaging

1982 • 197 citations

Prognostic importance of dipyridamole-echocardiography test in coronary artery disease.

1989 • 178 citations

Prognostic value of dipyridamole thallium scintigraphy for evaluation of ischemic heart disease

1990 • 156 citations

Dipyridamole-thallium imaging: the lazy man's stress test.

1989 • 141 citations

Safety of intravenous dipyridamole for stress testing with thallium imaging

1987 • 133 citations

Tomographic thallium-201 myocardial perfusion scintigrams after maximal coronary artery vasodilation with intravenous dipyridamole. Comparison of qualitative and quantitative approaches.

1982 • 121 citations

Safety and diagnostic accuracy of dipyridamole-thallium imaging in the elderly

1988 • 117 citations

Prognostic importance of silent myocardial ischemia detected by intravenous dipyridamole thallium myocardial imaging in asymptomatic patients with coronary artery disease

1989 • 113 citations

Effects of dipyridamole-induced vasodilation on myocardial uptake and clearance kinetics of thallium-201.

1983 • 109 citations

High dose dipyridamole echocardiography early after uncomplicated acute myocardial infarction: Correlation with exercise testing and coronary angiography

1989 • 109 citations

Coronary dilation with standard dose dipyridamole and dipyridamole combined with handgrip.

1989 • 108 citations

Ability of dipyridamole-thallium-201 imaging one to four days after acute myocardial infarction to predict in-hospital and late recurrent myocardial ischemic events

1990 • 107 citations

Prognostic value of intravenous dipyridamole thallium scintigraphy after an acute myocardial ischemic event

1989 • 97 citations

Thallium-201 myocardial imaging during pharmacologic coronary vasodilation: Comparison of oral and intravenous administration of dipyridamole

1986 • 96 citations

Clinical significance of perfusion defects by thallium-201 single photon emission tomography following oral dipyridamole early after coronary angioplasty

1988 • 92 citations

Effects of dipyridamole on myocardial adenosine and active hyperemia

1984 • 89 citations

Quantitative thallium-201 single photon emission computed tomography after oral dipyridamole for assessing the presence, anatomic location and severity of coronary artery disease

1988 • 88 citations

Predictive value of quantitative dipyridamole-thallium scintigraphy in assessing cardiovascular risk after vascular surgery in diabetes mellitus

1989 • 87 citations

Dipyridamole-induced ST segment depression during thallium-201 imaging in patients with coronary artery disease: Angiographic and hemodynamic determinants

1988 • 86 citations

Noninvasive cardiac risk stratification of diabetic and nondiabetic uremic renal allograft candidates using dipyridamole-thallium-201 imaging and radionuclide ventriculography

1989 • 83 citations

Simultaneous low level treadmill exercise and intravenous dipyridamole stress thallium imaging

1988 • 81 citations

Usefulness of the dipyridamole-exercise echocardiography test for diagnosis of coronary artery disease

1988 • 78 citations

Usefulness of oral dipyridamole suspension for stress thallium imaging without exercise in the detection of coronary artery disease

1986 • 75 citations

Prognostic utility of predischarge dipyridamole-thallium imaging compared to predischarge submaximal exercise electrocardiography and maximal exercise thallium imaging after uncomplicated acute myocardial infarction

1989 • 75 citations

Intrinsic washout rates of thallium-201 in normal and ischemic myocardium after dipyridamole-induced vasodilation.

1985 • 61 citations

Radionuclide imaging after coronary vasodilation: Myocardial scintigraphy with thallium-201 and radionuclide angiography after administration of dipyridamole

1984 • 61 citations

Quantitative comparison of thallium-201 scintigraphy after exercise and dipyridamole in coronary artery disease

1989 • 60 citations

Evaluation of coronary artery disease in the patient unable to exercise: Alternatives to exercise stress testing

1989 • 60 citations

Myocardial kinetics of thallium-201 after dipyridamole infusion in normal canine myocardium and in myocardium distal to a stenosis.

1982 • 57 citations

Dipyridamole-thallium scan for screening of coronary artery disease prior to vascular surgery.

1988 • 56 citations

Limitations of dipyridamole-echocardiography in effort angina pectoris

1987 • 50 citations

Relationship between regional myocardial blood flow and thallium-201 distribution in the presence of coronary artery stenosis and dipyridamole-induced vasodilation.

1984 • 45 citations

Quantitative analysis of dipyridamole-thallium images for the detection of coronary artery disease

1987 • 44 citations

Dipyridamole thallium imaging may not be a reliable screening test for coronary artery disease in patients undergoing vascular surgery

1990 • 41 citations

Usefulness of dipyridamole-thallium-201 perfusion scanning for distinguishing ischemic from nonischemic cardiomyopathy

1988 • 40 citations

Thallium-201 Imaging after Dipyridamole in Patients with Coronary Multivessel Disease

1983 • 37 citations

Prolonged Myocardial Ischemia after Intravenous Dipyridamole Thallium Imaging

1987 • 35 citations

Dipyridamole thallium testing: noncardiac side effects, cardiac effects, electrocardiographic changes and hemodynamic changes after dipyridamole infusion with and without exercise

1988 • 34 citations

Dipyridamole–thallium 201 scintigraphy in the early post-infarction period: (Safety and accuracy in predicting the extent of coronary disease and future recurrence of angina in patients suffering from their first mycocardial infarction)

1988 • 33 citations

Comparison of dipyridamole and treadmill exercise for enhancing thallium-201 perfusion defects in patients with coronary artery disease

1980 • 33 citations

Pharmacologic intervention as an alternative to exercise stress

1987 • 33 citations

Serial thallium-201 imaging after dipyridamole for coronary disease detection: Quantitative analysis using myocardial clearance

1984 • 32 citations

Noninvasive detection of coronary artery disease by myocardial imaging with thallium-201. The significance of pharmacologic interventions.

1981 • 29 citations

Split dose thallium-201 dipyridamole imaging: A new technique for obtaining thallium images before and immediately after an intervention

1983 • 29 citations

Myocardial uptake and clearance of thallium-201 in normal subjects: Comparison of dipyridamole-induced hyperemia with exercise stress

1987 • 23 citations

Thallium-201 single-photon emission computed tomography with intravenous dipyridamole to diagnose coronary artery disease

1990 • 20 citations

Systemic effects and safety of intravenous dipyridamole in elderly patients with suspected coronary artery disease

1987 • 18 citations

Severe Bronchospasm followed by Respiratory Arrest during Thallium-Dipyridamole Imaging

1989 • 17 citations

Comparison of myocardial washout rate of thallium-201 between rest, dipyridamole with and without aminophylline, and exercise states in normal subjects

1989 • 14 citations