Short-term Risk Stratification with Accelerated High-dose Dipyridamole Stress Echocardiography: Follow-up into 301 Consecutive Outpatients

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 253-256

  Baroncini, Liz Andréa V ^a  

^a Parana Federal University   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOPHYLLINE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ATROPINE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; INFUSION FLUID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIZZINESS; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; OUTPATIENT; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SUDDEN DEATH; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; THORAX PAIN; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 33847265322     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2006.09.010     Document Type: Article

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