recommendations. A new section on the use of intraoperative transesophageal
echocardiography (TEE) is being added to update the guidelines published by the American …

La mayor parte de las pruebas de esfuerzo se realizan a pacientes adultos con cardiopatía
isquémica en estudio o ya conocida. En los últimos años se ha producido la incorporación …

It is clearly important that the medical profession plays a significant role in critically
evaluation of the use of diagnostic procedures and therapies in the management or …

The “Guidelines for the clinical indications of echocardiography” of the Japanese Circulation
Society (JCS) were first developed between 1993 and 1994, and the first revision1 was …

Objectives: This study examined the effect of aspirin on the risk of embolic events in infective
endocarditis (IE). Background: Embolism is a major complication of IE, and studies in animal …

Background Although both 201Tl scintigraphy and low-dose dobutamine echocardiography
(LDDE) have been proposed as effective methods of assessing myocardial viability, their …

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the predictive value of
dobutamine stress echocardiography for perioperative cardiac events in patients scheduled …

Objectives. This study was conducted to assess the utility of dobutamine stress
echocardiography for determining the presence of significant coronary artery disease and …

The purpose of this study was to establish the safety of high-dose dobutamine-atropine
stress echocardlography in patients with suspected or proven coronary artery disease. Six …

Objectives. The purpose of this study was to determine the relative value of dobutamine
stress echocardiography and technetium-99m isonitrite single-photon emission computed …