Color kinesis during contrast-enhanced dobutamine stress echocardiography - Feasibility and applicability

Circulation Journal

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 49-53

  Takeuchi, Masaaki ^a   Yoshitani, Hidetoshi ^a   Miyazaki, Chinami ^a   Haruki, Nobuhiko ^a   Otani, Shinichiro ^a   Sakamoto, Kazuo ^a   Yoshikawa, Junichi ^b  

^a University of Occupational and Environmental Health   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Color kinesis; Contrast agents; Dobutamine stress echocardiography; Ultraharmonic imaging

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DOBUTAMINE; SHU 508;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOBUTAMINE STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGING; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; COLOR; CONTRAST MEDIA; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSACCHARIDES;

EID: 0037243177     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.67.49     Document Type: Article

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