Association of Myocardial Ischemia and Coronary Angiographic Lesions With Increased Left Atrial Dimension During Exercise Tolerance Tests Among Patients Without Known Coronary Heart Disease

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 99, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1187-1192

  Ariyarajah, Vignendra ^a   Kranis, Mark ^b   Apiyasawat, Sirin ^b   Spodick, David H ^b,c  

^a ST BONIFACE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b SAINT VINCENT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; P WAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA;

EID: 34247545020     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2006.12.030     Document Type: Article

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