Dobutamine stress echocardiography early after heart transplantation predicts development of allograft coronary artery disease and outcome

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1607-1614

  Akosah, Kwame O ^a   McDaniel, Susan ^b   Hanrahan, Josephine S ^b   Mohanty, Pramod K ^b  

^a GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; GRAFT FAILURE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CORONARY DISEASE; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; HEART; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0031799244     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00169-7     Document Type: Article

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