Prognostic value of left atrial volume in patients who underwent dobutamine stress echocardiography for known or suspected coronary artery disease

American Heart Journal

Volumn 156, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1110-1116

  Tsutsui, Jeane Mike ^a   Dourado, Paulo M M ^a   Elhendy, Abdou ^b   Falcão, Sandra N R S ^a   Goes, Renise M ^a   Chagas, Antônio C P ^a   da Luz, Protásio L ^a   Ramires, José A F ^a   Mathias Jr , Wilson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART SIZE; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL;

AGED; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; CARDIAC VOLUME; CORONARY DISEASE; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 56349155533     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2008.07.015     Document Type: Article

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