Myocardial Doppler at rest for the identification of myocardial viability

Italian Heart Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 179-185

  Rambaldi, Riccardo ^a   Desideri, Alessandro ^b   Bigi, Riccardo ^b   Cortigiani, Lauro ^b   Mantero, Antonio ^a   Fiorentini, Cesare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b San Giacomo Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Tissue Doppler imaging; Viable myocardium

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FUNCTION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; PULSE WAVE; REFERENCE VALUE; REST; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REST; ROC CURVE; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0038142675     PISSN: 1129471X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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