Usefulness of pulse-wave Doppler tissue sampling and dobutamine stress echocardiography for the diagnosis of right coronary artery narrowing

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1411-1415

  Rambaldi, Riccardo ^b   Poldermans, Don ^a   Fioretti, Paolo M ^b   Ten Cate, Folkert J ^b   Vletter, Wim B ^b   Bax, Jeroen J ^b   Roelandt, Jos R T C ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CORONARY DISEASE; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 2342468489     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(98)00208-2     Document Type: Article

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