Effect of contrast application on interpretability and diagnostic value of dobutamine stress echocardiography in patients with intermediate coronary lesions: Comparison with myocardial fractional flow reserve

European Heart Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 2536-2543

  Jung, Philip H ^a   Rieber, Johannes ^a   Störk, Stefan ^b   Hoyer, Caroline ^b   Erhardt, Isabelle ^a   Nowotny, Anja ^b   Voelker, Wolfram ^b   Weidemann, Frank ^b   Ertl, Georg ^b   Klauss, Volker ^a   Angermann, Christiane E ^b  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dobutamine stress echocardiography; Intermediate coronary artery stenosis; Myocardial fractional flow reserve; Transpulmonary contrast echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; DOBUTAMINE; PERFLUTREN; SONOVUE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TARGET ORGAN; THERAPY EFFECT;

AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 54149087328     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn204     Document Type: Article

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