Background Both nuclear imaging with F18-fluorodeoxyglucose and dobutamine stress
echocardiography have been used to identify viable myocardium, although dobutamine …

Objectives: This study sought to evaluate whether objective assessment of the myocardial
functional reserve, using strain rate imaging (SRI), allows accurate detection of viable …

Dobutamine stress echocardiography is widely used to predict reversible left ventricular
dysfunction, but evaluation with this method is subjective. Pulsed-wave tissue Doppler …

The extent of abnormality in patients with positive dobutamine echocardiography (DE) is
predictive of risk, but the wall motion score (WMS) has low concordance among observers …

Dobutamine (DOB) stress two-dimensional echocardiography is an established method for
the detection of viable myocardium, but conventional assessment of wall motion is …

The noninvasive assessment of myocardial viability has proved clinically useful for
distinguishing hibernating and/or stunned myocardium from irreversibly injured myocardium …

BACKGROUND: Detection of myocardial viability is crucial for clinical treatment of patients
with ischemic cardiomyopathy. Currently, quantitative information for the evaluation of …

Aims: Off-line post-processing of colour tissue Doppler from digital loops may allow objective
quantification of dobutamine stress echocardiography. We assessed the reproducibility of off …

Low-dose dobutamine echocardiography has been clinically useful in myocardial viability
studies, although routine visual assessment of wall motion is subjective. The objective was …

Dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) has become accepted as a safe1, 2 and
accurate methodology for detecting ischemia, 3 risk stratification, 4, 5 and for detection of …