Head-to-head comparison of high-dose dobutamine stress-echocardiography and exercise testing in prognostic stratification of patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2004 INTRODUCTION It is of the utmost importance to make an accurate assessment of prognosis in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. Both high-dose dobutamine stress-echocardiography and exercise testing have been used for prognostic ...
Otašević Petar M. +3 more
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Safety and efficacy of physiologist-led dobutamine stress echocardiography [PDF]
Echo Research and Practice, 2018 Keith Pearce, John Chambers
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Baseline mitral regurgitation predicts outcome in patients referred for dobutamine stress echocardiography [PDF]
, 2017 Purpose: A number of parameters recorded during dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) are associated with worse outcome. However, the relative importance of baseline mitral regurgitation (MR) is unknown.
O'Driscoll, J. +9 more
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Dobutamine stress echocardiography in orthotopic heart transplant recipients [PDF]
, 1995 Objectives. This study sought to determine whether dobutamine stress echocardiography could accurately identify coronary artery disease after heart transplantation.Background.
Koning, Rene´ +8 more
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Nonexercise stress transthoracic echocardiography: transesophageal atrial pacing versus dobutamine stress [PDF]
, 1999 ObjectivesTo compare transesophageal atrial pacing stress echocardiography with dobutamine stress echocardiography for feasibility, safety, duration, patient acceptance and concordance in inducing wall motion abnormalities.BackgroundTransesophageal ...
Pellikka, Patricia A +9 more
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Complications of exercise and pharmacologic stress echocardiography
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023 Stress echocardiography is a diagnostic cardiovascular exam that is commonly utilized for multiple indications, including but not limited to the assessment of obstructive coronary artery disease, valvular disease, obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy,
Christopher Lee +4 more
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Comparison of stress dobutamine echocardiography and stress dobutamine gated myocardial SPECT for the detection of viable myocardium [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: We prospectively studied a group of patients with myocardial infarction (MI), who were candidates for surgical revascularization, to compare the efficacy of dobutamine gated myocardial SPECT with dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) for ...
Roshanali, Farideh +3 more
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Pharmacological vs Exercise Stress Echocardiography for Detection of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy
Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes, 2020 Objective: To test the hypothesis that exercise and dobutamine would provide levels of cardiac stress that are comparable to those achieved in a general stress test population, and to one another, in heart transplant recipients.
Milena A. Gebska, MD, PhD +9 more
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Complementary Value of Tissue Doppler Imaging in Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography: A Prospective Cohort Study [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2023 Introduction: In patients with Coronary Artery Diseases (CAD), the presence of viable myocardium predicts the recovery of Left Ventricular (LV) systolic function after revascularisation.
V Sudha Kumary +2 more
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Effects of anesthesia on conventional and speckle tracking echocardiographic parameters in a mouse model of pressure overload [PDF]
, 2015 Genetically‑modified mice are widely applied in cardiovascular studies as model organisms. Echocardiography is a key tool for evaluating cardiac and hemodynamic functions in mice.
Wu, Xiaofen +7 more
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