Exercise testing with atropine;Il test da sforzo con atropina

Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 255-262

  Variola, Andrea ^a   Albiero, Remo ^a   Dander, Brunhilde ^a   Buonanno, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

atropine; exercise testing

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE;

ATROPINE; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCARINIC AGONISTS;

EID: 0030921929     PISSN: 00465968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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