Value of pharmacologic stress echocardiography in risk stratification of patients with single-vessel disease: A report from the echo-persantine and echo-dobutamine international cooperative studies

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 69-74

  Cortigiani, Lauro ^a   Picano, Eugenio ^b   Landi, Patrizia ^b   Previtali, Mario ^b   Pirelli, Salvatore ^b   Bellotti, Paolo ^b   Bigi, Riccardo ^b   Magaia, Ornella ^b   Galati, Alfonso ^b   Nannini, Eugenio ^b  

^a CAMPO DI MARTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL RATE;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SYMPATHOMIMETICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0032127064     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00190-9     Document Type: Article

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