Right ventricular function predicts cardiovascular events in outpatients with stable cardiovascular diseases: Preliminary results

Internal and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 251-256

  Giovanardi, Paolo ^a   Tincani, Enrico ^a   Rossi, Rosario ^b   Agnoletto, Virginia ^a   Bondi, Marco ^a   Modena, Maria Grazia ^b  

^a Nuovo Ospedale S Agostino   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Major cardiovascular events; Myocardial infarction; Right ventricular function; Stroke; TAPSE

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTPATIENT; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ODDS RATIO; OUTPATIENTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; STROKE VOLUME; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 84862234391     PISSN: 18280447     EISSN: 19709366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-011-0508-8     Document Type: Article

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