Usefulness of intravenous myocardial contrast echoardiography in the early left ventricular remodeling in acute myocardial infarction

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 713-719

  Mengozzi, Giovanna ^a   Rossini, Roberta ^a   Palagi, Caterina ^a   Musumeci, Giuseppe ^a   Petronio, Anna Sonia ^a   Limbruno, Ugo ^a   Caravelli, Paolo ^a   Di Bello, Vitantonio ^a   Mariani, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; DOBUTAMINE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DEATH; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART REINFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SIDE EFFECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 0036803481     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(02)02595-X     Document Type: Article

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