Transoesophageal atrial pacing stress echocardiography in coronary artery disease: Role, principles and methodology

Cardiovascular Journal of South Africa

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 81-87

  Goldberg, L ^a   Hagies, P ^b   Grigorov, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DIURETIC AGENT; DOBUTAMINE;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRODE; EPISTAXIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SAFETY; SINUS ARREST; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ATRIAL PACING STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTRODES; ESOPHAGUS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 3042576702     PISSN: 10159657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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