High Resolution Speckle Tracking Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography Reveals Heterogeneous Responses in Different Myocardial Layers: Implication for Viability Assessments

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 439-447

  Rösner, Assami ^a,b   How, Ole Jakob ^b   Aarsæther, Erling ^b   Stenberg, Thor Allan ^b   Andreasen, Thomas ^b   Kondratiev, Timofei V ^b   Larsen, Terje S ^b   Myrmel, Truls ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dobutamine stress echocardiography; Epicardial echocardiography; High resolution speckle tracking; Myocardial layers; Strain; Strain rate

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE EJECTION TIME; HEMODYNAMICS; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SWINE;

ANIMALS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; HEART; MALE; SWINE; TISSUE SURVIVAL;

EID: 77950062189     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2009.12.023     Document Type: Article

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