A head-to-head comparison of infusion and bolus doses of adenosine for stress myocardial contrast echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 483-489

  Nesser, Hans Joachim ^a,c   Yao, Jiefen ^b   Soman, Prem ^b   Tkalec, Wolfgang ^a   Ebner, Christian ^a   Steringer Mascherbauer, Regina ^a   Markt, Bernhard ^a   Samenuk, David ^b   Ng, Choi Keung ^a   Morcerf, Fernando ^a   Udelson, James E ^b   Pandian, Natesa G ^b  

^a KH der Elisabethinen   (Austria)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Ischemic heart disease; Microbubbles; Myocardial contrast echo; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; FS 069; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; FLUSHING; HEADACHE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THORAX PAIN;

ADENOSINE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALBUMINS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROCARBONS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 33748545951     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2006.00245.x     Document Type: Article

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