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  • Title: Thallium scintigraphy in patients with angina at rest.
    Author: Lee RJ, MacKenzie G, McNair W, Campbell NP, Adgey AA.
    Journal: Br Heart J; 1988 May; 59(5):517-20. PubMed ID: 2898254.
    Abstract:
    Sixty six patients with angina at rest were investigated by exercise electrocardiography, thallium scintigraphy, and coronary arteriography. A positive exercise electrocardiogram was highly predictive (93%) but poorly sensitive (52%) of coronary artery disease (greater than or equal to 50% stenosis). Thallium scintigraphy was as predictive of the presence of coronary artery disease (91%) but was also highly sensitive (91%). The diagnostic contribution of the thallium scan was greatest in those patients with an inconclusive exercise electrocardiogram without Q waves.
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