Coronary flow reserve during dipyridamole stress echocardiography predicts mortality

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1079-1085

  Cortigiani, Lauro ^a   Rigo, Fausto ^b   Gherardi, Sonia ^c   Bovenzi, Francesco ^a   Molinaro, Sabrina ^d   Picano, Eugenio ^d   Sicari, Rosa ^d  

^a CAMPO DI MARTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Umberto I Hospital   (Italy)

^c Cesena Hospital   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

coronary flow reserve; mortality; vasodilator stress testing

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; DIPYRIDAMOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HUMANS; ITALY; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 84869134939     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2012.08.007     Document Type: Article

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