Viability of Q-wave infarcted myocardium with restored positive and persistent negative T waves after optimal revascularization compared with dobutamine stress echocardiography

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 31-36

  Watanabe, Shintaro ^a   Kawamura, Yutaka ^a   Watanabe, Yasushi ^a   Tanaka, Kimio ^a   Tanaka, Kazushi ^a   Takei, Yasuhiko ^a   Ejiri, Nariaki ^a   Shimada, Kazuyuki ^b  

^a Hitachi General Hospital   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DOBUTAMINE; NITRATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q WAVE; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; T WAVE;

AGED; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CREATINE KINASE; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0033963220     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(99)00601-3     Document Type: Article

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