Long Term Favorable Prognostic Value of Negative Treadmill Echocardiogram in the Setting of Abnormal Treadmill Electrocardiogram: A 95 Month Median Duration Follow-Up Study

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1018-1022

  Al Mallah, Mouaz ^a   Alqaisi, Fadi ^a   Arafeh, Abdulilah ^a   Lakhdar, Rachid ^a   Al tamsheh, Rania ^a   Ananthasubramaniam, Karthik ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise echocardiography; Ischemia; Prognosis; Treadmill echocardiography; Treadmill electrocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECG ABNORMALITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MICHIGAN; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 50249160099     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2008.06.005     Document Type: Article

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