Prolonged impairment of regional contractile function after resolution of exercise-induced angina: Evidence of myocardial stunning in patients with coronary artery disease

Circulation

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2455-2464

  Ambrosio, Giuseppe ^b,c,d   Betocchi, Sandro ^a   Pace, Leonardo ^a   Losi, Maria Angela ^a   Perrone Filardi, Pasquale ^a   Soricelli, Andrea ^a   Piscione, Federico ^a   Taube, Jean ^c   Squame, Fiorenzo ^a   Salvatore, Marco ^a   Weiss, James L ^c   Chiariello, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica   (Italy)

Author keywords

angina; coronary disease; exercise; stunning, myocardial

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STUNNED HEART MUSCLE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 10544252276     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.94.10.2455     Document Type: Article

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