Recruitment of aged donor heart with pharmacological stress echo. A case report

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Arpesella, Giorgio ^a   Gherardi, Sonia ^b   Bombardini, Tonino ^c   Picano, Eugenio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b BUFALINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART SIZE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; BRAIN DEATH; DONOR; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DIPYRIDAMOLE;

BRAIN DEATH; DIPYRIDAMOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 33644866918     PISSN: 14767120     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-4-3     Document Type: Article

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