Identification of hibernating myocardium with myocardial contrast echocardiography. Comparison with late gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 117-120

  Tousek, Petr ^a   Penicka, Martin ^a   Tintera, Jaroslav ^b   Linkova, Hana ^a   Gregor, Pavel ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Contrast echocardiography; Hibernating myocardium; Magnetic resonance

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALBUMINS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FLUOROCARBONS; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL STUNNING; PILOT PROJECTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 46349088359     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.05.113     Document Type: Article

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