Strain rate measurement by Doppler echocardiography allows improved assessment of myocardial viability in patients with depressed left ventricular function

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 443-449

  Hoffmann, Rainer ^a   Altiok, Ertunc ^a   Nowak, Bernd ^a   Heussen, Nicole ^a   Kühl, Harald ^b   Kaiser, Hans Jürgen ^a   Büll, Udalrich ^a   Hanrath, Peter ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b University Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CINEVENTRICULOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRAIN RATE IMAGING; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SYSTOLE;

AGED; CORONARY STENOSIS; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0037028694     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(01)01763-6     Document Type: Article

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