Prognostic value of pharmacologic stress echocardiography in patients with left bundle branch block

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 361-369

  Cortigiani, Lauro ^a,h   Picano, Eugenio ^b   Vigna, Carlo ^c   Lattanzi, Fabio ^d   Coletta, Claudio ^e   Mariotti, Egidio ^f   Bigi, Riccardo ^g  

^a Lucca Hospital   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^c CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d Pontedera Hospital   (Italy)

^e SPIRITO SANTO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^f SAN SALVATORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g Castelfranco Veneto Hospital   (Italy)

^h CAMPO DI MARTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DEATH; HEART GRAFT; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL;

ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; AGED; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK;

EID: 0035313038     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(01)00630-1     Document Type: Article

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