Constrictive pericarditis: An unusual clinical entity suggested during dobutamine stress echocardiography

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Gujral, Vishal ^a   López Candales, Angel ^a   Abdelhadi, Raed ^a   Crock, Frederick ^a   Gulyasy, Beth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac magnetic resonance; Constrictive pericarditis; Dobutamine stress echocardiography; Right heart catheterization

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CASE REPORT; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART DILATATION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; ISCHEMIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERICARDIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PERICARDITIS, CONSTRICTIVE; PERICARDIUM;

EID: 33750479872     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2006.04.022     Document Type: Article

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