In clinical decision making, myocardial viability is defined as myocardium in acute or chronic
coronary artery disease and other conditions with contractile dysfunction but maintained …

Heusch, Gerd. Hibernating Myocardium. Physiol. Rev. 78: 1055–1085, 1998.—Decreased
myocardial contraction occurs as a consequence of a reduction in blood flow. The concept of …

Stress echocardiography is the combination of 2D echocardiography with a physical,
pharmacological or electrical stress. The diagnostic end point for the detection of myocardial …

OBJECTIVES This study was designed to address, in patients with severe ischemic left
ventricular dysfunction, whether dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) can predict …

Methods A MEDLINE search (1980 through January 2000) was performed using the search
term “myocardial viability” in combination with a set of terms for the techniques:“Thallium …

OBJECTIVES The study assessed whether end-diastolic wall thickness (EDWT), measured
with echocardiography, is an important marker of myocardial viability in patients with …

Objectives. The purpose of this study was to assess whether the presence or absence of
myocardial viability during dobutamine echocardiography (DE) predicts survival in patients …

Objectives: We sought to determine whether myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE)
performed before and early after primary coronary stenting (PCS) in patients with acute …

Background: The time course and extent of recovery after revascularization of viable
dysfunctional myocardium are variable. Although fibrosis is a major determinant, myocyte …

Objectives: Early evaluation of myocardial viability in acute myocardial infarction is useful to
guide therapy. Therefore, we assessed 64-slice computed tomography (CT) immediately …