Impact of early exercise radionuclide cineangiography on long-term prognosis after CABG

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 473-477

  Shapira, Itzhak ^a,b   Heller, Israel ^a   Isakov, Aharon ^a   Gurevitch, Jacob ^a   Yakirevich, Vladimir ^a   Topilsky, Marcel ^a   Villa, Yael ^a   Pines, Amos ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; CINEANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ST SEGMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIONUCLIDE ANGIOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STROKE VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0030817712     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)00540-7     Document Type: Article

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