Identifying patients without favourable long-term outcome among those with medically stabilized unstable angina and a negative dipyridamole stress echocardiogram

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 205-211

  Moreno, Raúl ^a   Villate, Alexis ^a   Zamorano, José ^a   Almería, Carlos ^a   Pérez González, José Antonio ^a   Rodrigo, José Luis ^a   Perez de Isla, Leopoldo ^a   Mataix, Luis ^a   Macaya, Carlos ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Outcome; Stress echocardiogram; Unstable angina

Indexed keywords

AMINOPHYLLINE; ANTIANGINA PECTORIS AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DOBUTAMINE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PROPRANOLOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BRADYCARDIA; BRONCHOSPASM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FLUSHING; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 2942682686     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euje.2003.11.008     Document Type: Article

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