Osswald S, Pfisterer M, Burkart F
Abteilung für Kardiologie, Universitätskliniken DIM, Kantonsspital Basel.
Ther Umsch. 1991 Aug;48(8):560-6.
Patients with coronary artery disease can be stratified by noninvasive techniques into risk-groups for further diagnostic and therapeutic management. The prognostic impact of the patient's history, physical examination and ECG are discussed. With this clinical assessment a high-risk group of patients, who should undergo coronary angiography, can be identified. In a low-risk group, further evaluation depends on results of exercise-stress testing. The relative value of exercise ECG, thallium-201-scintigraphy and radionuclide ventriculography in this special clinical setting are discussed in detail.
