Assessment of myocardial viability in patients with postischemic left ventricular dysfunction: Role of myocardial contrast echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages

  Agati, Luciano ^a,d   De Majo, Francesca ^a   Madonna, Maria Pina ^a   Celani, Flavia ^a   Funaro, Stefania ^b   Tonti, Gianni ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b S Giuseppe Hospital   (Italy)

^c SS Annunziata Hospital   (Italy)

^d POLICLINICO UMBERTO I   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Myocardial contrast echocardiography; Myocardial viability

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DOBUTAMINE; SONOVUE; THALLIUM 201;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INOTROPISM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MYOCARDIAL CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MYOCARDIAL VIABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL; ULTRASOUND;

CONTRAST MEDIA; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; TISSUE SURVIVAL; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 0042164979     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.20.s1.4.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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