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List of works by Frans Wackers

85% of maximal age-predicted heart rate is not a valid endpoint for exercise treadmill testing

scientific article published on September 16, 2011

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of the safety and efficacy of intravenous MCC-135 as an adjunct to primary percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with acute myocardial infarction: Evaluation of MCC-135 for left ventricul

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of the safety and efficacy of intravenous MCC-135 as an adjunct to primary percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with acute myocardial infarction: rationale and design of the evaluation o

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

Accreditation of nuclear cardiology laboratories: an educational process

scientific article published on 01 March 2003

Acute chest pain of uncertain etiology, the short and long view

scientific article published on 01 April 2012

Acute rest myocardial perfusion imaging for chest pain

scientific article published in July 2004

American Society of Nuclear Cardiology consensus statement: Reporting of radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging studies

scientific article published in November 2006

American Society of Nuclear Cardiology position statement on radionuclide imaging in patients with suspected acute ischemic syndromes in the emergency department or chest pain center

scientific article published in March 2002

American society of nuclear cardiology consensus statement: reporting of radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging studies

scientific article published on November 2003

An economic analysis of an aggressive diagnostic strategy with single photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging and early exercise stress testing in emergency department patients who present with chest pain but nondiagnostic e

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Assessment of flow-mediated vasodilation

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

Assessment of right ventricular morphology and function

scientific article published on 01 June 2003

Association of leukocyte and neutrophil counts with infarct size, left ventricular function and outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-elevation myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 17 November 2008

Asymptomatic patients with diabetes mellitus should be screened for coronary artery disease

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

Autonomic dysfunction independently predicts poor cardiovascular outcomes in asymptomatic individuals with type 2 diabetes in the DIAD study.

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B. Leonard Holman, MD. (1941-1998)

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Barry L. Zaret, MD and H. William Strauss, MD

scientific article published on 08 April 2019

Brachial artery reactivity in asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and microalbuminuria (from the Detection of Ischemia in Asymptomatic Diabetics-brachial artery reactivity study).

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Call for a standard unit of defect size

scientific article published on 9 April 2014

Cardiac abnormalities in diabetic patients with neuropathy: effects of aldose reductase inhibitor administration

scientific article published in February 2004

Cardiac outcomes after screening for asymptomatic coronary artery disease in patients with type 2 diabetes: the DIAD study: a randomized controlled trial

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Cardiac single-photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging: finally up to speed?

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Chest pain in the emergency department: role of cardiac imaging

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Clinical validation of SPECT attenuation correction using x-ray computed tomography-derived attenuation maps: multicenter clinical trial with angiographic correlation

scientific article published in November 2005

Comparison of 16-frame and 8-frame gated SPET imaging for determination of left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction

scientific article published on 28 June 2003

Correlation of myocardial p-(123)I-iodophenylpentadecanoic acid retention with (18)F-FDG accumulation during experimental low-flow ischemia

scientific article published in March 2002

Customized exercise testing

scientific article published on 01 August 2009

David E. Kuhl (1929-2017)

scientific article published on 31 August 2018

Detection of Myocardial Ischemia in Patients With Diabetes Mellitus

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Detection of silent myocardial ischemia in asymptomatic diabetic subjects: the DIAD study

scientific article published in August 2004

Diabetes and coronary artery disease: the role of stress myocardial perfusion imaging

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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

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Differential effect of 180 degrees and 360 degrees acquisition orbits on the accuracy of SPECT imaging: quantitative evaluation in phantoms.

scientific article published in August 2002

Electromechanical mapping for detecting myocardial viability and ischemia in patients with severe ischemic cardiomyopathy

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Equilibrium gated radionuclide angiocardiography: Its invention, rise, and decline and … comeback?

scientific article published on 27 January 2016

Five-year outcomes in high-risk participants in the Detection of Ischemia in Asymptomatic Diabetics (DIAD) study: a post hoc analysis.

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Gender-based divergence of cardiovascular outcomes in asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes: Results from the DIAD study

scientific article published on 06 January 2012

George A. Beller, MD (Born 1940)

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

Hal O. Anger, DSc (hon) (1920-2005)

scientific article published on 26 July 2018

Has LVEF changed beyond chance? Limits of agreement of radiotracer-derived LVEF

scientific article published on 20 February 2015

Heinz R. Schelbert, MD, PhD. (Born 1939)

scientific article published on 02 January 2020

Highlights of the 2005 scientific sessions of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology: Seattle, Washington, September 29-October 2, 2005

scientific article published on 15 March 2006

Highlights of the 2006 Scientific sessions of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology: Montreal, Canada, September 7 to 10, 2006.

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Highlights of the 2007 scientific sessions of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology San Diego, California, September 6-9, 2007.

scientific article published on 26 November 2007

Highlights of the 2008 scientific sessions of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology : Boston, Massachusetts, 10-14 September 2008

scientific article published on 22 January 2009

How to identify the asymptomatic high-risk patient?

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Joseph P. Kriss, MD (1915-1989)

scientific article published on 14 August 2018

K. Lance Gould, MD (born October 28, 1938)

scientific article published on 22 July 2019

Lessons learned from the detection of ischemia in asymptomatic diabetics (DIAD) study

scientific article published on 15 August 2009

Mario S. Verani, MD (1943-2001)

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Medical Writing by Non-native English-speaking Authors

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Mentorship at Distance: A new initiative of the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

scientific article published on 31 March 2015

Michael E. Phelps, PhD (born August 24, 1939)

scientific article published on 31 October 2018

Michael M. Ter-Pogossian (1925-1996)

scientific article published on 04 June 2018

Myocardial perfusion planar imaging

scientific article published in November 2006

New hybrid count- and geometry-based method for quantification of left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction from ECG-gated SPECT: methodology and validation

scientific article published in January 2005

On the bright right side

scientific article published in July 2005

Pharmacologic stress perfusion imaging with adenosine: role of simultaneous low-level treadmill exercise

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Physical inactivity and cardiac events: An analysis of the Detection of Ischemia in Asymptomatic Diabetics (DIAD) study

scientific article published on 15 June 2017

Predictors of physical inactivity in men and women with type 2 diabetes from the Detection of Ischemia in Asymptomatic Diabetics (DIAD) study

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Prognostic significance of ischemic electrocardiographic changes during adenosine infusion in patients with normal myocardial perfusion imaging

scientific article published on January 2003

Randomized, controlled dose-ranging study of the selective adenosine A2A receptor agonist binodenoson for pharmacological stress as an adjunct to myocardial perfusion imaging

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Resolution of asymptomatic myocardial ischemia in patients with type 2 diabetes in the Detection of Ischemia in Asymptomatic Diabetics (DIAD) study

scientific article (publication date: November 2007)

Screening asymptomatic diabetic patients for coronary artery disease: why not?

scientific article published on 24 July 2006

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

scientific article published in January 2006

Selection of contemporary candidates to be portrayed in the JNC History Corner

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Should SPET attenuation correction be more widely employed in routine clinical practice? Against

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Task Force 5: training in nuclear cardiology: endorsed by the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology

scientific article published in February 2006

Task force 5: training in nuclear cardiology endorsed by the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

The art of communicating: The Nuclear Cardiology Report

scientific article published on 01 October 2011

The association of psychological factors, physical activity, neuropathy, and quality of life in type 2 diabetes

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The heart rate response to adenosine: A simple predictor of adverse cardiac outcomes in asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes

scientific article published on September 12, 2012

The impact of screening for asymptomatic myocardial ischemia in individuals with type 2 diabetes

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The origins and early years of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology

scientific article published on November 15, 2012

The prognostic value of vasodilator myocardial perfusion imaging in octogenarians

scientific article published in September 2004

Third Annual Mario S. Verani, MD, Memorial Lecture: The future of clinical nuclear cardiology

scientific article published in July 2005

Utility of cardiac biomarkers in predicting infarct size, left ventricular function, and clinical outcome after primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction.

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Value of peripheral vascular endothelial function in the detection of relative myocardial ischemia in asymptomatic type 2 diabetic patients who underwent myocardial perfusion imaging

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

William C. Eckelman, PhD (born 1941)

scientific article published on 29 June 2018