The Independent Prognostic Value of Contractile and Coronary Flow Reserve Determined by Dipyridamole Stress Echocardiography in Patients With Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1154-1158

  Rigo, Fausto ^a   Gherardi, Sonia ^b   Galderisi, Maurizio ^c   Sicari, Rosa ^d   Picano, Eugenio ^d  

^a Cardiology Division   (Italy)

^b AUSL Cesena   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; SONOVUE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DEVICE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; INOTROPISM; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASODILATATION;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DIPYRIDAMOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; SURVIVAL RATE; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 34147209545     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2006.11.049     Document Type: Article

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