Feasibility and prognostic value of stress echocardiography in obese, morbidly obese, and super obese patients referred for bariatric surgery

Echocardiography

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 879-885

  Supariwala, Azhar ^a   Makani, Harikrishna ^a   Kahan, Jonathan ^a   Pierce, Matthew ^a   Bajwa, Farhan ^a   Dukkipati, Sai Sreenija ^a   Teixeira, Julio ^a   Chaudhry, Farooq A ^b  

^a Department of Medicine St Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center Columbia University College of Physicians and Surg ^*  (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

bariatric surgery; morbidly obese; obesity; prognosis; stress echocardiography

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; PERFLUTREN; ALBUMINOID; CONTRAST MEDIUM; FLUOROCARBON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; COMORBIDITY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBID OBESITY; OBESITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC USE; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; OBESITY, MORBID; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; ALBUMINS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUOROCARBONS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OBESITY, MORBID; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84905487935     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12481     Document Type: Article

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