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

In recent years, diagnostic testing to evaluate the presence and extent of viable but
dysfunctional myocardium has become an important component of the clinical assessment …

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

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 …

Aims New approaches in the treatment of ischaemic left ventricular dysfunction, including
revascularization, make it increasingly important to identify heart failure cases resulting from …

Importance In the Revascularization for Ischemic Ventricular Dysfunction (REVIVED-BCIS2)
trial, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) did not improve outcomes for patients with …

Objectives”, explains how to select and use various test methods for evaluating disease
states, the prognosis, and the effects of treatment. References to the literature published …

Objectives. This study evaluated the relative merits of the most frequently used techniques
for predicting improvement in regional contractile function after coronary revascularization in …

The safety of dobutamine echocardiography in coronary artery disease is well established.
27 This study shows that dobutamine can be given safely to patients with AS during …

Background Myocardial hibernation is a condition of chronic left ventricular dysfunction
associated with severe coronary artery disease whereby significant recovery of function …