End-systolic pressure/volume relationship during dobutamine stress echo: A prognostically useful non-invasive index of left ventricular contractility

European Heart Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 2404-2412

  Grosu, Aurelia ^a   Bombardini, Tonino ^b   Senni, Michele ^a   Duino, Vincenzo ^a   Gori, Mauro ^a   Picano, Eugenio ^b  

^a OSPEDALI RIUNITI   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bowditch treppe; Dobutamine stress echocardiography; Force frequency relationship; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRESSURE VOLUME CURVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC VOLUME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PROGNOSIS; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 26244436663     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehi444     Document Type: Article

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