Contractile Reserve: Are We Beginning to Understand It?

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 727-728

  Francis, Gary S ^a   Desai, Milind Y ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiomyopathy; contractility; heart failure

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; DOBUTAMINE; PHOSPHOLAMBAN; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM CALCIUM TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; GENE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART SURGERY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION;

3-IODOBENZYLGUANIDINE; ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; DOBUTAMINE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; MYOCARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA-1; RNA, MESSENGER; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM CALCIUM-TRANSPORTING ATPASES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR PRESSURE;

EID: 56049085578     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2008.09.001     Document Type: Editorial

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