Incremental diagnostic value of dipyridamole echocardiography and exercise thallium 201 scintigraphy in the assessment of presence and extent of coronary artery disease
Vitantonio Di Bello, Enrico Gori, Calogero Riccardo Bellina, Oberdan Parodi, Nicola Molea, Gino Santoro, Giuliano Mariani, Umberto Conti, Enrico Magagnini and Paolo Marzullo, et al.
Abstract:
Background
The incremental diagnostic information of two noninvasive tests for the detection of coronary artery disease (CAD), dipyridamole echocardiography, and exercise201Tl myocardial scintigraphy was assessed in a series of 102 patients with ordered logistic regression and receiver-operating characteristic curves.