Relation between reduction in ischaemic mitral regurgitation and improvement in regional left ventricular contractility during low dose dobutamine stress echocardiography

Heart

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1092-1093

  Abe, Yukio ^a   Imai, T ^a   Ohue, K ^a   Otsuka, R ^a   Komatsu, R ^a   Otsuka, M ^a   Sakanoue, Y ^a   Naruko, T ^a   Itoh, A ^a   Yoshiyama, M ^b   Haze, K ^a   Yoshikawa, J ^b  

^a OSAKA CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 23044478813     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2004.042747     Document Type: Article

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