Stress echo results predict mortality: A large-scale multicenter prospective international study

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 589-595

  Sicari, Rosa ^a   Pasanisi, Emilio ^a   Venneri, Lucia ^a   Landi, Patrizia ^a   Cortigiani, Lauro ^a   Picano, Eugenio ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0037454020     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(02)02863-2     Document Type: Article

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