Long-term survival of patients with chest pain syndrome and angiographically normal or near-normal coronary arteries: The additional prognostic value of dipyridamole echocardiography test (DET)

European Heart Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 2136-2141

  Sicari, Rosa ^a   Palinkas, Attila ^b   Pasanisi, Emilio G ^a   Venneri, Lucia ^a   Picano, Eugenio ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b Elisabeth Hospital   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Dipyridamole echocardiography test (DET); Normal coronary artery; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DOBUTAMINE; NITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SURVIVAL; THORAX PAIN;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; DIPYRIDAMOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROVASCULAR ANGINA; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 26044433336     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehi408     Document Type: Article

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