Objectives. We sought to evaluate the comparative accuracy of myocardial contrast
echocardiography (MCE), quantitative rest-redistribution thallium-201 (Tl-201) tomography …

Objectives. We examined the relationship among viability assessment by dobutamine
echocardiography (DE), positron emission tomography (PET) and thallium-201 single …

Observations of reversibility of cardiac contractile dysfunction in patients with coronary artery
disease and ischemia were first made more than 40 years ago. Since that time a wealth of …

Background—Myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) has been used to evaluate
myocardial viability. There are no data, however, on the pathological determinants of …

Background—Although dobutamine echocardiography (DE) is widely used to assess
myocardial viability in humans, little is known about the relation between contractile reserve …

The CD133+ bone marrow cell (BMC) population includes primitive multipotent stem cells
which induce neoangiogenesis. Studies suggested transplantation of these cells to infarcted …

According to the Oxford English Dictionary,“viable” means “capable of living.” 1 Incorrectly,
the terms viable and capable of contracting in the presence of adequate blood flow have …

OBJECTIVES We evaluated a novel protocol of dual-isotope, gated single-photon emission
computed tomographic (SPECT) imaging combined with low and high dose dobutamine as …

Objective To determine the best test (s) for predicting functional recovery of hibernating
myocardium after reperfusion. Methods A prospective study to compare echocardiographic …

Little is known about the diagnostic value of real-time myocardial contrast echocardiography
(MCE) for the assessment of myocardial viability. We compared the diagnostic accuracy of …