Prognostic value of exercise stress echocardiography in patients with left bundle branch block

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 478-484

  Vasconcelos, Francis de Lima ^a   Santos, Bruno Fernandes de Oliveira ^a   Santana, Nathalie de Oliveira ^a   Faro, Gustavo Baptista de Almeida ^a   Rocha, Romerito de Oliveira ^a   Leal, Vinício Vieira ^a   Barreto Filho, José Augusto ^a,b   Sousa, Antônio Carlos Sobral ^a,b   Oliveira, Joselina Luzia Menezes ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SERGIPE   (Brazil)

^b Hospital e Fundação São Lucas   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bundle branch block; Coronary artery disease; Echocardiography; Prognosis; Stress

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PROGNOSIS; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84856353561     PISSN: 0066782X     EISSN: 16784170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0066-782X2011005000098     Document Type: Article

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