Pharmacologic Stress Echocardiography Predicts Total Mortality Early after Acute Myocardial Infarction

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 114-120

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

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; DOBUTAMINE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 0842278629     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2003.10.004     Document Type: Article

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