Development of a fully quantitative approach to the interpretation of stress echocardiography using radial and longitudinal myocardial velocities

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 759-767

  Cain, Peter ^a,b   Short, Leann ^a,b   Baglin, Terri ^a,b   Case, Colin ^a,b   Bosch, Hans G ^a,b   Marwick, Thomas H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

EID: 0036694790     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mje.2002.119164     Document Type: Article

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