Dobutamine stress Doppler echocardiography: Reproducibility and physiologic left ventricular filling patterns

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 293-303

  Nixdorff, Uwe ^a   Wagner, Stefan ^a   Erbel, Raimund ^b   Mohr Kahaly, Susanne ^a   Weitzel, Peter ^a   Rieger, Klaus ^a   Meyer, Jürgen ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

dobutamine stress Doppler echocardiography; left ventricular filling; myocardial ischemia

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STRESS;

CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CORONARY DISEASE; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; OBSERVER VARIATION; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0031038840     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5273(96)02875-6     Document Type: Article

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