Value of a High Exercise Workload to Rule Out Myocardial Ischemia

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 265-266

  Bouzas Mosquera, Alberto ^a   Peteiro, Jesús ^a   Álvarez García, Nemesio ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART RATE; LETTER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 73549103644     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2009.08.054     Document Type: Letter

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