Detection of myocardial viability by dobutamine stress echocardiography: Incremental value of diastolic wall thickness measurement

Heart

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 613-617

  Zaglavara, T ^a   Pillay, T ^a   Karvounis, H ^b   Haaverstad, R ^a   Parharidis, G ^b   Louridas, G ^b   Kenny, Antoinette ^a  

^a FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIASTOLIC WALL THICKNESS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MEASUREMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THICKNESS;

AREA UNDER CURVE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; MYOCARDIUM; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 17644389238     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2003.028316     Document Type: Article

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