Methodology, feasibility, safety and diagnostic accuracy of dobutamine stress echocardiography

ML Geleijnse, PM Fioretti, JRTC Roelandt - Journal of the American College …, 1997 - jacc.org
Large numbers of patients referred for evaluation of chest pain are unable to perform
adequate, diagnostic exercise testing. In these patients, dobutamine stress …

Evolution of dobutamine echocardiography protocols and indications: safety and side effects in 3,011 studies over 5 years

MA Secknus, TH Marwick - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 1997 - jacc.org
Objectives. This study sought to document the safety of dobutamine stress
echocardiography as it has evolved at a single center and to define predictors of adverse …

Safety and accuracy of dobutamine-atropine stress echocardiography for the detection of residual stenosis of the infarct-related artery and multivessel disease during …

SC Smart, T Knickelbine, TR Stoiber, M Carlos… - Circulation, 1997 - Am Heart Assoc
Background The safety of dobutamine-atropine echocardiography early after acute
myocardial infarction is unknown. Its accuracy for the early detection of infarct artery stenosis …

Knowledge of perfusion and contractile reserve improves the predictive value of recovery of regional myocardial function postrevascularization: a study using the …

MF Meza, S Ramee, T Collins, D Stapleton, RV Milani… - Circulation, 1997 - Am Heart Assoc
Background This study was designed to determine the value of myocardial contrast
echocardiography (MCE) and dobutamine echocardiography (DE), alone or in combination …

Combination of dobutamine and myocardial contrast echocardiography to differentiate postischemic from infarcted myocardium

MF Meza, MA Kates, RW Barbee, S Revall… - Journal of the American …, 1997 - jacc.org
Objectives. This study tested whether the combination of dobutamine echocardiography
(DE) and myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) was superior to either technique …

Diagnostic and prognostic value of dipyridamole and dobutamine stress echocardiography in patients with Q-wave acute myocardial infarction

G Minardi, MD Marcello Di Segni, CC Manzara… - The American journal of …, 1997 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to compare dipyridamole and dobutamine stress
echocardiography, performed early in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) to …

Akinesis becoming dyskinesis during dobutamine stress echocardiography: a predictor of poor functional recovery after surgical revascularization

A Elhendy, JH Cornel, JRTC Roelandt… - Chest, 1996 - Elsevier
Background Akinesis becoming dyskinesis at high-dose dobutamine stress
echocardiography (DSE) has been disregarded as a marker of myocardial ischemia …

Comparison of dobutamine stress echocardiography and 99m-technetium sestamibi SPECT myocardial perfusion scintigraphy for predicting extent of coronary artery …

A Elhendy, ML Geleijnse, JRTC Roelandt… - The American journal of …, 1997 - Elsevier
This study compares the value of dobutamine stress echocardiography and 99m-technetium
methoxyisobutyl-isonitrile (MIBI) single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in …

Accuracy of dobutamine stress echocardiography for the diagnosis of coronary artery stenosis in patients with myocardial infarction: the impact of extent and severity of …

A Elhendy, RT yan Domburg, JR Roelandt… - Heart, 1996 - heart.bmj.com
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 …

The comparative diagnostic value of dobutamine stress echocardiography and thallium stress tomography for detecting restenosis after coronary angioplasty

M Takeuchi, Y Miura, T Toyokawa, M Araki… - Journal of the American …, 1995 - Elsevier
The noninvasive detection of restenosis is clinically important for the subsequent
management of patients in whom percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) …