title: Diagnostic accuracy of stress thallium-201 tomography in patients with left ventricular hypertrophy.
abstract: Two hundred patients with echocardiographically proven left ventricular hypertrophy underwent quantitative stress thallium tomography. The overall sensitivity and specificity were high (84% and 82%, respectively).
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vaduganathan
authors.forename: Z X
authors.initials: ZX
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Mahmarian
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Verani
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005080:Exercise Test; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / Q000592:standards*
chemical_list: D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes