Diagnostic accuracy of stress thallium-201 tomography in patients with left ventricular hypertrophy.
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).
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Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
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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*
D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes