Role of echocardiography in the assessment of myocardial viability

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 337, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 349-354

  McLean, Dalton S ^a   Anadiotis, Athanasios V ^a   Lerakis, Stamatios ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic myocardial infraction; Echocardiography; Hibernating myocardium; Viability

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; DOBUTAMINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; TECHNETIUM 99M; THALLIUM 201; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; MYOCARDIAL HIBERNATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; STUNNED HEART MUSCLE; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; CARDIOLOGY; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PERFUSION; REPRODUCIBILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARDIOLOGY; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL STUNNING; MYOCARDIUM; PERFUSION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 67649121916     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e3181a39391     Document Type: Article

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