Prognostic Implications of Dipyridamole or Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography for Evaluation of Patients ≥65 Years of Age With Known or Suspected Coronary Heart Disease

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 99, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1491-1495

  Cortigiani, Lauro ^a   Bigi, Riccardo ^b   Sicari, Rosa ^c   Landi, Patrizia ^c   Bovenzi, Francesco ^a   Picano, Eugenio ^c  

^a Lucca Hospital   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; DOBUTAMINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SYMPATHOMIMETICS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 34248660826     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.01.019     Document Type: Article

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