Screening of asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus for silent coronary artery disease: Combined use of stress myocardial perfusion imaging and coronary calcium scoring

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Different manifestations of coronary artery disease by stress SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging, coronary calcium scoring, and multislice CT coronary angiography in asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

✍ Arthur J.H.A. Scholte; Joanne D. Schuijf; Antje V. Kharagjitsingh; Petra Dibbets 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 Springer 🌐 English ⚖ 227 KB

## Background: We sought to assess prospectively the evidence for silent coronary artery disease (cad) in asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus by stress single-photon emission computed tomography (spect) myocardial perfusion imaging, coronary artery calcium (cac) scoring, and multisl