Usefulness of transthoracic echocardiography as a tool for risk stratification of patients undergoing major noncardiac surgery

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 505-509

  Rohde, Luis E ^a   Polanczyk, Carisi A ^b   Goldman, Lee ^c   Cook, E Francis ^b   Lee, Richard T ^a   Lee, Thomas H ^d  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Section for Clinical Epidemiology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Partners Community HealthCare Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EDEMA; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ARRHYTHMIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PULMONARY EDEMA; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035283062     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(00)01421-1     Document Type: Article

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