Improvement of left ventricular ejection fraction, heart failure symptoms and prognosis after revascularization in patients with chronic coronary artery disease and viable myocardium detected by dobutamine stress echocardiography

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 163-169

  Bax, Jeroen J ^a   Poldermans, Don ^b   Elhendy, Abdou ^b   Cornel, Jan H ^c   Boersma, Eric ^b   Rambaldi, Riccardo ^b   Roelandt, Jos R T C ^b   Fioretti, Paolo M ^d  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Location Alkmaar   (Netherlands)

^d Udine Medical School   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOISOTOPE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY DISEASE; DOBUTAMINE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; ROC CURVE; STROKE VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0033165563     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(99)00157-6     Document Type: Article

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