Stress echo applications beyond coronary artery disease

European Heart Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 1033-1040

  Picano, Eugenio ^a   Pellikka, Patricia A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Echocardiography; Heart failure; Stress; Valvular heart disease

Indexed keywords

AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; DIASTOLIC HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MICROANGIOPATHY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; NONISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC HEART FAILURE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASE; MICROVASCULATURE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MICROVESSELS;

EID: 84899507145     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/eht350     Document Type: Review

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