Acute myocardial infarction during a dobutamine stress echocardiography, in a patient with angiographically normal coronaries

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Ioannides, Marios ^a   Yiangou, Kyriakos ^a   Christodoulides, Theodoros ^a   Kassianides, Marios ^a   Nicolaides, Evagoras ^a   Henein, Michael ^a  

^a NICOSIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Dobutamine stress echo; Myocardial infarction; Normal coronaries; Thrombolysis; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; DOBUTAMINE; HEPARIN; NITRATE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

EID: 53549093867     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.06.138     Document Type: Article

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