Trends in the use of echocardiography and left ventriculography to assess left ventricular ejection fraction in patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction

American Heart Journal

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 185-192

  Joffe, Samuel W ^a   Chalian, Armen ^a   Tighe, Dennis A ^a   Aurigemma, Gerard P ^a   Yarzebski, Jorge ^a   Gore, Joel M ^a   Lessard, Darleen ^a   Goldberg, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION;

AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 67650523669     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2009.05.027     Document Type: Article

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