Pharmacologic stress testing is an accepted alternative in those patients unable to perform
exercise stress testing. The most prevalent form of pharmacologic stress testing remains …

The problems of population referral bias in the calculation of specificity in diagnostic testing
for coronary artery disease have been previously described. Previous studies investigating …

A continuous infusion of a single high dose of dobutamine has been, recently, suggested as
a simple and effective protocol of stress echocardiography. The present study assesses the …

Although dobutamine requires up to 10 minutes to achieve steady state, dobutamine stress
echocardiography is routinely performed using stepwise increments at 3-minute intervals …

OBJECTIVES.: The goal of this study was to determine the feasibility, safety, sensitivity and
specificity of transesophageal dobutamine stress echocardiography for the detection of …

Dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) has been widely used for the noninvasive
diagnosis of obstructive coronary artery disease. The ST‐segment elevation during DSE has …

OBJECTIVES: To assess the value of dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) in the
prediction of the extent and location of coronary artery stenosis in symptomatic patients with …

There has been no study comparing the efficacy of dobutamine and exercise
echocardiography in detecting coronary artery disease (CAD) or their physiologic effects at …

BACKGROUND Exercise and pharmacological stress echocardiography have emerged as
convenient alternatives to myocardial scintigraphy. The objective of this study was to …

Abstract purpose: To compare the relative value of clinical variables with dobutamine-
atropine stress echocardiography to predict cardiac events during long-term follow-up …