MATERIALS AND METHODS Patient Selection Consecutive patients undergoing diagnostic
coro nary arteriography for chest pain syndromes were en tered into the study if clinical …

MATERIALS AND METhODS Patient Population A total of 24 patients with either
angiographicallyor scinti graphically documented coronary artery disease was included in …

Although the diagnostic utility of thallium-201 myocardial imaging after dipyridamole infusion
is well established, the intravenous form of the drug is not yet commercially available in …

In this issue of the Journal a study using single photon emission computed tomography
(SPECT) with thallium-201 reports an improvement in the noninvasive diagnostic accuracy …

Tl-201 imaging was performed in 194 patients who had undergone coronary angiography
which had demonstrated coronary artery disease in 149 and normal coronary vessels in 45 …

Intravenous infusion of dipyridamole is an acceptable alternative to physical exercise for
myocardial imaging with thallium-201. The coronary dilating effect of dipyridamole results in …

DISCUSSION To our knowledge, CVA due to intravenous dipyrida mole administration has
not been documented previously. Pounds et al.(13) reported a case in which a patient …

Background Both dipyridamole and adenosine are widely used as pharmacologic stressors
with 201 Tl imaging for detection of coronary artery disease. The purpose of this study was to …

D ipyridamole thallium 201 scintigraphy is increasingly being used as an alternative to
exercise scintigraphy for detection of coronary artery disease and risk stratification. 1, 2 …

Clinical data on 3,911 patients were collected from 64 individual investigators to evaluate
the safety of intravenous dipyridamole-thallium imaging as an alternative to exercise …