Usefulness of chronotropic incompetence to Dipyridamole in predicting myocardial perfusion defects in heart transplant recipients

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1001-1004

  De Chiara, Benedetta ^b   Bigi, Riccardo ^b   Devoto, Emmanuela ^b   Cavenaghi, Giorgio ^b   Turazza, Fabio ^b   Sara, Roberto ^b   Colombo, Tiziano ^b   Frigerio, Maria ^b   Parodi, Oberdan ^a  

^a OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; DIPYRIDAMOLE; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CHRONOTROPISM; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INFUSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FLUSHING; GRAFT REJECTION; HEADACHE; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION INJURY; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 0141706663     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(03)00989-5     Document Type: Article

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