Effect of intravenous atropine on treadmill stress test results in patients with poor exercise capacity or chronotropic incompetence

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 165-169

  Ghaffari, Samad ^a   Sohrabi, Bahram ^a  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CHRONOTROPISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG RESPONSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SIDE EFFECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ATROPINE; CORONARY DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33644541498     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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