Dobutamine stress echocardiography: Experience in pediatric heart transplant recipients

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 725-732

  Pahl, Elfriede ^a   Crawford, Susan E ^a   Swenson, Jeanine M ^b   Duffy, C Elise ^a   Fricker, F Jay ^b   Backer, Carl L ^a   Mavroudis, Constantine ^a   Chaudhry, Farooq A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0032783466     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-2498(99)00009-1     Document Type: Article

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