Echocardiography plays a crucial role in the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular
disease. However, interpretation remains largely reliant on the subjective expertise of the …

Objective To classify the sources of bias and variation and to provide an updated summary
of the evidence of the effects of each source of bias and variation. Study Design and Setting …

Ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests is a critical part of emergency medicine (EM). In
evaluating a study of diagnostic test accuracy, emergency physicians (EPs) need to …

Cardiovascular toxicity remains a major cause of concern during preclinical and clinical
development as well as contributing to post-approval withdrawal of medicines. This issue is …

Background: Dobutamine stress echocardiography is widely used to test for ischemia in
patients with stable coronary artery disease. In this analysis, we studied the ability of the …

Aims Stress echocardiography is widely used to identify obstructive coronary artery disease
(CAD). High accuracy is reported in expert hands but is dependent on operator training and …

Diagnosis and management of coronary artery disease represents major challenges to our
health care system, affecting millions of patients each year. Until recently, the diagnosis of …

Pre-transplant evaluation for orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) commonly includes a
cardiac evaluation using dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE). We performed a …

Background Myocardial work (MW) derived from the left ventricular pressure-strain loop is a
novel and noninvasive method for assessing left ventricular function that accounts for …

Background Residual ischemia detection after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
(STEMI) during dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) using visual analysis is …