Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography Enhances Long-Term Prognostic Value of Supine Bicycle Stress Two-Dimensional Echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1220-1227

  Miszalski Jamka, Tomasz ^a   Kuntz Hehner, Stefanie ^b   Schmidt, Harald ^c   Peter, Daniel ^c   Miszalski Jamka, Karol ^d   Hammerstingl, Christoph ^c   Tiemann, Klaus ^e   Ghanem, Alexander ^b   Troatz, Clemens ^b   Pasowicz, Mieczysław ^a   Lüderitz, Berndt ^b   Omran, Heyder ^c  

^a Krakowski Szpital Specjalistyczny Im Jana Pawła II   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c Department of Internal Medicine ^*  (Germany)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Myocardial contrast echocardiography; Prognosis; Supine bicycle stress; two dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICYCLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; SUPINE POSITION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUPINE POSITION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 70350465310     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2009.07.020     Document Type: Article

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