Exercise testing in asymptomatic patients after revascularization: Are outcomes altered?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 854-861

  Harb, Serge C ^a   Cook, Thomas ^a   Jaber, Wael A ^a   Marwick, Thomas H ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EXERCISE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REPEAT PROCEDURE; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DIRECT SERVICE COSTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84862287104     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.1355     Document Type: Article

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