The multicenter study of enhanced external counterpulsation (MUST-EECP): Effect of EECP on exercise-induced myocardial ischemia and anginal episodes

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1833-1840

  Arora, Rohit R ^a   Chou, Tony M ^b   Jain, Diwakar ^c   Fleishman, Bruce ^d   Crawford, Lawrence ^e   McKiernan, Thomas ^f   Nesto, Richard W ^g  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d RIVERSIDE METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COUNTERPULSATION; ENHANCED EXTERNAL COUNTERPULSATION; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA PECTORIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; COUNTERPULSATION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAFETY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032716497     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(99)00140-0     Document Type: Article

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