Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography and Thallium-201 SPECT for Detecting Ischaemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy in Patients with Heart Failure | Zendy

M. Franchini | Zendy

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Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography and Thallium-201 SPECT for Detecting Ischaemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy in Patients with Heart Failure

Author(s) -

M. Franchini

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

european journal of echocardiography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.576

H-Index - 92

eISSN - 1525-2167

pISSN - 1532-2114

DOI - 10.1053/euje.2000.0022

Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , dobutamine , dilated cardiomyopathy , coronary artery disease , cardiomyopathy , ejection fraction , ischemia , heart failure , scintigraphy , stress echocardiography , hemodynamics

A diagnosis of ischaemic aetiology of a dilated cardiomyopathy has important therapeutic and prognostic implications. In such patients, abnormal ECG and atypical symptoms limit the usefulness of standard ECG-ergometry in detecting myocardial ischaemia. To assess the values of high-dose dobutamine stress echocardiography and of Thallium-201 SPECT (exercise-reinjection-rest protocol) in differentiating between ischaemic and non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy, 37 patients with suspected myocardial ischemia, low ventricular ejection fraction (23 +/- 5%) and heart failure were studied.

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