Low-level exercise echocardiography detects contractile reserve and predicts reversible dysfunction after acute myocardial infarction: Comparison with low-dose dobutamine echocardiography

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 989-997

  Hoffer, Etienne P ^a   Dewé, Walthère ^a   Celentano, Carmine ^a   Piérard, Luc A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; DOBUTAMINE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CATECHOLAMINES; DOBUTAMINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL STUNNING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY;

EID: 0033213388     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(99)00340-X     Document Type: Article

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