Comparison of exercise echocardiography to exercise electrocardiographic testing added to echocardiography at rest for risk stratification after uncomplicated acute myocardial infarction

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 373-376

  Peteiro, Jesús ^a,b   Monserrat, Lorenzo ^a   Vazquez, Eugenia ^a   Perez, Ruth ^a   Garrido, Iris ^a   Vazquez, Nicolas ^a   Castro Beiras, Alfonso ^a  

^a HOSPITAL JUAN CANALEJO   (Spain)

^b P/Ronda 5 4 Izda15011 A   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; REST; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREADMILL EXERCISE; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 0041562651     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(03)00652-0     Document Type: Article

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