Exercise Echocardiography: Principles, methods, and clinical use

Cardiology Clinics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 447-460

  Bossone, E ^a   Armstrong, W F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DERIVATIVE; ARBUTAMINE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DOBUTAMINE; ERGOMETRINE;

BICYCLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ERGOMETRY; EXERCISE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; MENTAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

EID: 0032814259     PISSN: 07338651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0733-8651(05)70090-4     Document Type: Article

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