Strain rate imaging after dynamic stress provides objective evidence of persistent regional myocardial dysfunction in ischaemic myocardium: Regional stunning identified?

Heart

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 152-160

  Williams, Robert I ^a   Payne, N ^b   Phillips, T ^a   D'Hooge, J ^c   Fraser, A G ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Providence Health Systems   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE STRAIN; HEART MUSCLE STRAIN RATE; HEART MUSCLE VELOCITY; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MACHINE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; STUNNED HEART MUSCLE; SYSTOLE; THORAX PAIN; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WORKLOAD;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIAL STUNNING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYSTOLE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 12744269409     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2003.027490     Document Type: Article

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