Diagnosis and risk stratification in coronary artery disease: Nuclear cardiology versus stress echocardiography

Incremental value of prognostic testing in patients with known or suspected ischemic heart disease: A basis for optimal utilization of exercise technetium-99m sestamibi myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography

1995 • 588 citations

Analysis of interinstitutional observer agreement in interpretation of dobutamine stress echocardiograms

1996 • 585 citations

Current diagnostic techniques of assessing myocardial viability in patients with hibernating and stunned myocardium.

1993 • 557 citations

Dobutamine Echocardiography in Myocardial Hibernation

1995 • 533 citations

Clinical outcome of patients with advanced coronary artery disease after viability studies with positron emission tomography

1992 • 528 citations

Quantitative planar rest-redistribution 201Tl imaging in detection of myocardial viability and prediction of improvement in left ventricular function after coronary bypass surgery in patients with severely depressed left ventricular function.

1993 • 521 citations

Dobutamine stress echocardiography identifies hibernating myocardium and predicts recovery of left ventricular function after coronary revascularization.

1993 • 515 citations

Prognostic value of thallium-201 myocardial perfusion imaging. A diagnostic tool comes of age.

1991 • 397 citations

Accuracy and limitations of exercise echocardiography in a routine clinical setting

1992 • 379 citations

Selection of the optimal nonexercise stress for the evaluation of ischemic regional myocardial dysfunction and malperfusion. Comparison of dobutamine and adenosine using echocardiography and 99mTc-MIBI single photon emission computed tomography.

1993 • 368 citations

Echocardiography during infusion of dobutamine for identification of reversible dyfunction in patients with chronic coronary artery disease

1994 • 368 citations

Optimal use of dobutamine stress for the detection and evaluation of coronary artery disease: Combination with echocardiography or scintigraphy, or both?

1993 • 361 citations

Effect of exercise level on the ability of thallium-201 tomographic imaging in detecting coronary artery disease: Analysis of 461 patients

1989 • 329 citations

Exercise echocardiography versus 201Tl single-photon emission computed tomography in evaluation of coronary artery disease. Analysis of 292 patients.

1992 • 319 citations

Identification of Viable Myocardium

1996 • 309 citations

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

1990 • 309 citations

Dobutamine stress echocardiography for assessment of perioperative cardiac risk in patients undergoing major vascular surgery.

1993 • 304 citations

Histological alterations in chronically hypoperfused myocardium. Correlation with PET findings.

1994 • 299 citations

Dobutamine Echocardiography Predicts Improvement of Hypoperfused Dysfunctional Myocardium After Revascularization in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease

1995 • 258 citations

Value of rest thallium-201/technetium-99m sestamibi scans and dobutamine echocardiography for detecting myocardial viability

1993 • 237 citations

Quantitative exercise thallium-201 single photon emission computed tomography for the enhanced diagnosis of ischemic heart disease

1990 • 234 citations

Exercise echocardiography: Detection of coronary artery disease in patients with normal left ventricular wall motion at rest

1988 • 226 citations

Effect of prior myocardial infarction and extent and location of coronary disease on accuracy of exercise echocardiography

1987 • 226 citations

Prediction of recovery of myocardial dysfunction after revascularization comparison of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose/thallium-201 SPECT, thallium-201 stress-reinjection SPECT and dobutamine echocardiography

1996 • 219 citations

Exercise echocardiography as a screening test for coronary artery disease and correlation with coronary arteriography

1991 • 215 citations

Myocardial Blood Flow, Glucose Uptake, and Recruitment of Inotropic Reserve in Chronic Left Ventricular Ischemic Dysfunction

1996 • 209 citations

Prognostic value of thallium-201 single-photon emission computed tomographic myocardial perfusion imaging according to extent of myocardial defect

1994 • 207 citations

Use of technetium-99m isonitrile (RP-30A) in assessing left ventricular perfusion and function at rest and during exercise in coronary artery disease, and comparison with coronary arteriography and exercise thallium-201 SPECT imaging

1989 • 207 citations

Dipyridamole cardiac imaging

1988 • 207 citations

Assessment of Myocardial Viability in Patients With Chronic Coronary Artery Disease

1996 • 206 citations

Detection of coronary artery disease with exercise two-dimensional echocardiography. Description of a clinically applicable method and comparison with radionuclide ventriculography.

1983 • 195 citations

Comparison of Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography and Low-Dose Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography in Predicting Recovery of Left Ventricular Function After Coronary Revascularization in Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease

1995 • 193 citations

Head-to-head comparison of exercise-redistribution-reinjection thallium single-photon emission computed tomography and low dose dobutamine echocardiography for prediction of reversibility of chronic left ventricular ischemic dysfunction

1996 • 193 citations

Prognostic value of a normal exercise echocardiogram

1990 • 191 citations

Exercise echocardiography and technetium-99m MIBI single-photon emission computed tomography in the detection of coronary artery disease

1991 • 183 citations

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

1989 • 178 citations

Myocardial Perfusion Imaging With ^99m Tc Tetrofosmin

1995 • 175 citations

Simultaneous dobutamine stress echocardiography and technetium-99m isonitrile single-photon emission computed tomography in patients with suspected coronary artery disease

1993 • 174 citations

Two dimensional echocardiographic evaluation of exercise-induced left and right ventricular asynergy: Correlation with thallium scanning

1981 • 172 citations

Exercise echocardiographic detection of coronary artery disease in women

1989 • 163 citations

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

1990 • 156 citations

Exercise technetium-99m sestamibi tomography for cardiac risk stratification of patients with stable chest pain.

1994 • 153 citations

Myocyte degeneration and cell death in hibernating human myocardium

1996 • 147 citations

Prognostic usefulness of positive or negative exercise stress echocardiography for predicting coronary events in ensuing twelve months

1993 • 125 citations

Dobutamine echocardiography and resting-redistribution thallium-201 scintigraphy predicts recovery of hibernating myocardium after coronary revascularization

1994 • 124 citations

Nuclear Cardiology

1993 • 123 citations

Technetium 99m sestamibi in the assessment of chronic coronary artery disease

1991 • 118 citations

Role of thallium-201 and PET imaging in evaluation of myocardial viability and management of patients with coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction.

1994 • 116 citations

Prognostic value of dobutamine echocardiography in patients with high pretest likelihood of coronary artery disease

1993 • 115 citations

Comparison of stress echocardiography and stress myocardial perfusion scintigraphy for diagnosing coronary artery disease and assessing its severity

1995 • 111 citations

Equivalence between adenosine and exercise thallium-201 myocardial tomography: A multicentre, prospective, crossover trial

1992 • 104 citations

Identification of hibernating myocardium by dobutamine stress echocardiography: Comparison with thallium-201 reinjection imaging

1995 • 102 citations

Relation of quantitative coronary lesion measurements to the development of exercise-induced ischemia assessed by exercise echocardiography

1990 • 95 citations

Nuclear Cardiology

1993 • 86 citations

Positron emission tomography for the assessment of myocardial viability.

1991 • 83 citations

Transesophageal dobutamine stress echocardiography for evaluation of patients with coronary artery disease

1994 • 81 citations

The efficacy of cardiovascular nuclear medicine exercise studies

1987 • 67 citations

Diagnostic accuracy of thallium-201 myocardial perfusion imaging.

1991 • 50 citations

Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy during maximal coronary artery vasodilation with adenosine

1991 • 49 citations

Dipyridamole thallium-201 imaging versus dobutamine echocardiography for the evaluation of coronary artery disease in patients unable to exercise

1993 • 42 citations

Dipyridamole technetium 99m sestamibi myocardial tomography as an independent predictor of cardiac event-free survival after acute ischemic events

1994 • 31 citations

Thallium-201 single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in the assessment of coronary artery disease

1992 • 24 citations

Merits and limitations of radionuclide approaches to viability and future developments

1994 • 20 citations

Prognosis of Acute and Chronic Coronary Artery Disease by Myocardial Perfusion Imaging

1994 • 17 citations

Myocardial viability

1996 • 15 citations

Thallium imaging, dobutamine echocardiography and positron emission tomography for the assessment of myocardial viability

1996 • 10 citations

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