Pressure-Volume Relationship During Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography Predicts Exercise Tolerance in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 71-78

  Ciampi, Quirino ^a   Pratali, Lorenza ^b   Bombardini, Tonino ^b   Della Porta, Michele ^a   Petruzziello, Bruno ^a   Villari, Bruno ^a   Picano, Eugenio ^b   Sicari, Rosa ^b  

^a FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Contractile reserve; Dobutamine stress echocardiography; Exercise tolerance; Heart failure; Natriuretic peptides

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; DOBUTAMINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEART VOLUME; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; STROKE VOLUME; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 72649094461     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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