Transesophageal echocardiographic study of right atrial myocardial infarction and myocardial viability

Echocardiography

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 201-209

  Vargas Barrón, Jesús ^a   Romero Cárdenas, Angel ^a   Espinola Zavaleta, Nilda ^a   Peña Duque, Marco ^a   Martinez Sanchez, Carlos ^a   Ortiz Solis, Jose Eladio ^a   Keirns, Candace ^a   Rijlaarsdam, Maria ^a   Lupi Herrera, Eulo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CARDIOLOGÍA IGNACIO CHÁVEZ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Dobutamine; Myocardial infarction; Myocardial viability; Right atrium; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; INOTROPISM; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031907245     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1998.tb00598.x     Document Type: Article

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