Risk stratification by stress echocardiography: A whiter shade of pale?

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 162-164

  Picano, Eugenio ^a   Sicari, Rosa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ANGINA, UNSTABLE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 2942693614     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euje.2004.04.001     Document Type: Editorial

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