Contrast stress-echocardiography predicts cardiac events in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome but nondiagnostic electrocardiogram and normal 12-hour troponin

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1333-1341

  Gaibazzi, Nicola ^a   Squeri, Angelo ^a   Reverberi, Claudio ^a   Molinaro, Sabrina ^b   Lorenzoni, Valentina ^b   Sartorio, Daniele ^a   Senior, Roxy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^c ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chest pain; Contrast; Myocardial perfusion imaging; Prognosis; Stress echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; SONOVUE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DRUG INFUSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TROPONIN;

EID: 81855194257     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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