Myocardial contrast echocardiography for predicting functional recovery after acute myocardial infarction

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 257-268

  Borges, Adrian C ^a,b   Richter, Wolf S ^b   Witzel, Christian ^a   Witzel, Matthias ^a   Grohmann, Andrea ^a   Reibis, Rona K ^a   Rutsch, Wolfgang ^a   Küchler, Ingeborg ^b   Munz, Dieter L ^b   Baumann, Gert ^a  

^a Angiology and Pneumology   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Myocardial contrast echocardiography; Myocardial infarction; Myocardial stunning; Stress echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DOBUTAMINE; HEPARIN; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; SHU 508; TICLOPIDINE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CORONARY STENT; DRUG INFUSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTIGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARDIZATION; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; STUNNED HEART MUSCLE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0035986519     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 18758312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015529431982     Document Type: Article

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