Low dose dobutamine echocardiography predicts improvement in functional capacity after exercise training in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy: Prognostic implication

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1027-1034

  Belardinelli, Romualdo ^a,b   Georgiou, Demetrios ^a   Purcaro, Augusto ^a  

^a Ospedale Monospecialistico Cardiologico GM Lancisi   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; DOBUTAMINE; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIAL STUNNING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0032054180     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00040-0     Document Type: Article

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