Two-dimensional and dobutamine stress echocardiography in the preoperative assessment of patients with end-stage liver disease prior to orthotopic liver transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1180-1188

  Donovan, Carolyn L ^a,b   Marcovitz, Pamela A ^a   Punch, Jeffrey D ^a   Bach, David S ^a   Brown, Kimberly A ^a   Lucey, Michael R ^a   Armstrong, William F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY RISK; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0029966397     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199604270-00011     Document Type: Article

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