Intravenous myocardial contrast echocardiography predicts regional and global left ventricular remodelling after acute myocardial infarction: Comparison with low dose dobutamine stress echocardiography

Heart

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1578-1583

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

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

^b OSAKA CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DILATATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILE FORCE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REVASCULARIZATION; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 25444497697     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2004.057521     Document Type: Article

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