Clinical usefulness and cost of echocardiography in patients admitted to a coronary care unit

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 80, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1273-1276

  Kim, Richard ^a   Chakko, Simon ^a   Myerburg, Robert J ^a   Kessler, Kenneth M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY CARE UNIT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED; CORONARY CARE UNITS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 0030862328     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)00664-4     Document Type: Article

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