Objectives. The aim of this study was to test whether the contractile response of akinetic
myocardium to low dose dobutamine is useful for detecting myocardial viability in patients …

Objectives. This study sought to evaluate the time course of improvement of left ventricular
(LV) dysfunction in stable patients and its implications on the accuracy of dobutamine …

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

Objectives. This study was designed to evaluate dobutamine stress echocardiography in
identifying reversible dysfunction and assessing the extent of irreversibly damaged …

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

BACKGROUND The identification of hibernating myocardium is important in selecting
patients who will benefit from coronary revascularization. This study was performed to …

Background In patients with coronary artery disease, dysfunctional hypoperfused
myocardium at rest may represent either necrotic or viable hibernating myocardium. The …

Myocardial function was assessed by stress echocardiography in 28 patients before and
after successful elective coronary angioplasty. Dobutamine stress echocardiography was …

To assess the effects of coronary revascularization on viable but noncontractile myocardium,
we examined 21 patients with a documented anterior acute myocardial infarction who had a …

Background Dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) and myocardial contrast
echocardiography (MCE) can predict recovery of left ventricular function after myocardial …