Preserved diagnostic utility of dobutamine stress echocardiography in pacemaker-dependent patients with absolute chronotropic incompetence

American Heart Journal

Volumn 138, Issue 2 I, 1999, Pages 364-368

  Oral, H ^a   Armstrong, W F ^a   Bach, D S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CHRONOTROPISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032814055     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-8703(99)70126-2     Document Type: Article

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