Optimizing long-term cardiac management after major vascular surgery: Role of β-blocker therapy, clinical characteristics, and dobutamine stress echocardiography to optimize long-term cardiac management after major vascular surgery

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 2230-2235

  Kertai, Miklos D ^a   Boersma, Eric ^a   Bax, Jeroen J ^a   Thomson, Ian R ^b   Cramer, Maarten J ^c   Van de Ven, Louis L M ^a   Scheffer, Michael G ^d   Trocino, Giuseppe ^e   Vigna, Carlo ^f   Baars, Hubert F ^g   Van Urk, Hero ^a   Roelandt, Jos R T C ^a   Poldermans, Don ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d Afd Klinische Pathologie   (Netherlands)

^e SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^f Instituto di Ricovero e Cura   (Italy)

^g CPRLab   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DEATH; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART PROTECTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RISK FACTORS; VASCULAR DISEASES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 10744220801     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.163.18.2230     Document Type: Article

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