Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 15, Issue 7 , Pages 671-677 , July 2002

Low-level exercise echocardiography identifies contractile reserve in patients with a recent myocardial infarction: Comparison with dobutamine stress echocardiography

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☆ Reprint requests: Leonard E. Ginzton, MD, Division of Cardiology, Box 405, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1000 W Carson St, Torrance, CA 90502 (E-mail: lginzton@ucla.edu).

PII: S0894-7317(02)00016-0

doi: 10.1067/mje.2002.119586

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 15, Issue 7 , Pages 671-677 , July 2002

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