Determination of interobserver variability for identifying inducible left ventricular wall motion abnormalities during dobutamine stress magnetic resonance imaging

European Heart Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1459-1464

  Paetsch, Ingo ^a   Jahnke, Cosima ^a   Ferrari, Victor A ^b   Rademakers, Frank E ^c   Pellikka, Patricia A ^d   Hundley, W Gregory ^e   Poldermans, Don ^f   Bax, Jeroen J ^g   Wegscheider, Karl ^h   Fleck, Eckart ^a   Nagel, Eike ^a  

^a DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^e WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; Dobutamine stress; Reader variability; Wall motion analysis

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DRUG INFUSION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOBUTAMINE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33745683666     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehi883     Document Type: Article

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