Dobutamine stress echocardiography predicts cardiac events or death in asymptomatic patients long-term after heart transplantation: 4-Year prospective evaluation

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1238-1244

  Bacal, Fernando ^a,b   Moreira, Luizfelipe ^a   Souza, Germano ^a   Rodrigues, Ana Clara ^a   Fiorelli, Alfredo ^a   Stolf, Noedir ^a   Bocchi, Edimar ^a   Bellotti, Giovanni ^a   Ramires, Joséantonio F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Ap 42 Moema ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; THALLIUM;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EVALUATION; FOLLOW UP; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONG TERM CARE; PATIENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TIME; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY DISEASE; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 8144220631     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2003.09.007     Document Type: Article

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