Prognostic Value of Exercise Echocardiography in Patients With Left Bundle Branch Block

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 251-259

  Bouzas Mosquera, Alberto ^a   Peteiro, Jesús ^a   Álvarez García, Nemesio ^a   Broullón, Francisco J ^a   García Bueno, Lourdes ^a   Ferro, Luis ^a   Pérez, Ruth ^a   Bouzas, Beatriz ^a   Fábregas, Ramón ^a   Castro Beiras, Alfonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

bundle branch block; prognosis; stress echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

AGED; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATABASES AS TOPIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 61649113980     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2008.11.014     Document Type: Article

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