Two-year clinical outcomes after enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP) therapy in patients with refractory angina pectoris and left ventricular dysfunction (report from the International EECP Patient Registry)

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-20

  Soran, Ozlem ^a,d   Kennard, Elizabeth D ^b   Kfoury, Abdallah Georges ^c   Kelsey, Sheryl F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c LDS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Speaker's Bureau of Vasomedical Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNTERPULSATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGISTER; SKIN DISEASE; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; COUNTERPULSATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGISTRIES; RETREATMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 29244450126     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2005.07.122     Document Type: Article

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