Dobutamine stress echocardiography: a review and update
Research Reports in Clinical Cardiology, 2014 Lauren Gray Gilstrap,1 R Sacha Bhatia,2 Rory B Weiner,3 David M Dudzinski3 1Division of Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; 2Institute for Health Systems Solutions, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; 3Cardiology
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Stress echocardiography in valvular heart disease
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023 Valvular heart disease (VHD) has been a significant health problem, particularly in developed countries, in relation to the aging population. Recent developments in the management of VHD require a more accurate assessment of disease severity to determine
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The effect of heat stress, dehydration and exercise on global left ventricular function and mechanics in healthy humans [PDF]
, 2010 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This thesis examined the effect of heat stress, dehydration and exercise on global left ventricular (LV) function and LV twist, untwisting and strain (LV ...
Stöhr, Eric J
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Diastolic dysfunction types in the prediction of viable myocardium functional recovery [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2008 Background/Aim. It is well known that patients with coronary artery disease and viable tissue as a guarantee of contractile recovery (CR), despite of decreasing ejection fraction (EF) and systolic dysfunction, could have benefit from surgical ...
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Frequency and characteristics of myocardial ischemia recorded during stress echocardiography in patients with high coronary risk [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2011 Background/Aim. Ischemic heart disease is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in the world as well as in our country. Ischemic heart disease has the multifactorial origin and the presence of several risk factors increases the risk of myocardial
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Platelet aggregability and anticoagulant proteins activity during dobutamine stress echocardiography in asymptomatic patients four months after percutaneous coronary intervention [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2019 Introduction: Platelets aggregability (PA) and the activation of hemostasis, during myocardial ischemia within physical or mental stress, can be one of many factors that influence the process of stent thrombosis after percutaneous coronary ...
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Prevalence and prognostic significance of silent myocardial ischemia in patients after myocardial infarction [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2007 Background/Aim. Silent myocardial ischemia (MI) can be detected in subjects with any symptoms, in patients after myocardial infarction and in coronary patients who have episodes of symptomatic, as well as of silent MI.
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Myocardial work index during normal dobutamine stress echocardiography
Scientific Reports, 2022 Dobutamine stress echocardiography is an alternative method to exercise stress echocardiography for the evaluation of ischemia. Recently, the novel speckle tracking imaging derived parameter, myocardial work index, was suggested for the evaluation of ...
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Pediatric stress echocardiography
, 2023 Guidelines recommend that diagnostic imaging procedures should be performed in a regional Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center with adequate experience in congenital heart disease.
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Stress Echocardiography Audit: Experience of a Tertiary Care Center
Journal of the Indian Academy of Echocardiography & Cardiovascular Imaging, 2021 Background: Stress echocardiography is a very useful diagnostic and prognostic test in the evaluation of significant coronary artery disease (CAD) causing inducible myocardial ischemia.
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