The value of dobutamine stress echocardiography for the detection of coronary artery disease in women

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 811-817

  Dionisopoulos, Peter N ^a   Collins, Jocelyn D ^a   Smart, Steven C ^a   Knickelbine, Thomas A ^a   Sagar, Kiran B ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOTONIC AGENT; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DOBUTAMINE;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION;

AGED; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0031252731     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-7317(97)70040-3     Document Type: Article

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