The safety of adenosine pharmacologic stress testing in patients with first-degree atrioventricular block in the presence and absence of atrioventricular blocking medications

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 495-497

  Alkoutami, Ghassan S ^a   Reeves, William C ^a   Movahed, Assad ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenosine stress testing; AV blocking medications; Myocardial perfusion studies

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGITALIS; DILTIAZEM; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PR INTERVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0032718825     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1071-3581(99)90021-1     Document Type: Article

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