Open AccessDoppler tissue velocity sampling improves diagnostic accuracy during dobutamine stress echocardiography for the assessment of viable myocardium in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction
Author(s) -
R Rambaldi
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
european heart journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.336
H-Index - 293
eISSN - 1522-9645
pISSN - 0195-668X
DOI - 10.1053/euhj.1999.1857
Subject(s) - dobutamine , medicine , ejection fraction , cardiology , stress echocardiography , coronary artery disease , fluorodeoxyglucose , doppler imaging , nuclear medicine , blood sampling , radiology , hemodynamics , heart failure , positron emission tomography , diastole , blood pressure
Both nuclear imaging with F18-fluorodeoxyglucose and dobutamine stress echocardiography have been used to identify viable myocardium, although dobutamine-stress echocardiography has been demonstrated to be the less sensitive of the two.
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