Outcome after normal exercise echocardiography and predictors of subsequent cardiac events: Follow-up of 1,325 patients

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 144-149

  McCully, Robert B ^a   Roger, Veronique L ^a   Mahoney, Douglas W ^a   Karon, Barry L ^a   Oh, Jae K ^a   Miller Jr , Fletcher A ^a   Seward, James B ^a   Pellikka, Patricia A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WORKLOAD;

AGED; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031932407     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(97)00427-0     Document Type: Article

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