Dobutamine stress echocardiography during follow-up surveillance in heart transplant patients: Diagnostic accuracy and predictors of outcomes

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 710-717

  Chirakarnjanakorn, Srisakul ^a,b,c   Starling, Randall C ^a   Popović, Zoran B ^a   Griffin, Brian P ^b   Desai, Milind Y ^b  

^a Heart and Vascular Institute ^*  (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Cardiac allograft vasculopathy; Dobutamine stress echocardiography; Heart transplantation; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOBUTAMINE STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THORAX PAIN; ECHOGRAPHY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; THAILAND; TRENDS;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; THAILAND; TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 84933179081     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: 15573117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2014.11.019     Document Type: Article

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