Comparison of acoustic densitometry and dobutamine echocardiography for an assessment of myocardial viability

Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 586-592

  Panovský, Roman ^a   Meluzín, Jaroslav ^a   Kincl, Vladimír ^a   Stětka, František ^b   Fischerová, Blanka ^a   Vespalec, Jaroslav ^b  

^a ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

^b Centre for Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantation   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Acoustic densitometry; Coronary artery disease; Dobutamine echocardiography; Viability

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DENSITOMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY DISEASE; DENSITOMETRY; DERMATITIS, CONTACT; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 27744466968     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2005.40068.x     Document Type: Article

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