Stress echocardiography
Dual imaging stress echocardiography versus computed tomography coronary angiography for risk stratification of patients with chest pain of unknown origin
... dipyridamole stress echocardiography with combined assessment of CFR in the LAD has entered the echocardiography lab as a highly feasible technique [7], providing additional diagnostic value over ...
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Dobutamine stress echocardiography in healthy adult male rats
... Dobutamine stress echocardiography can be easily per- formed in rats and can be used to evaluate left ventricular function in response to adrenergic ...
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Relevance of tissue Doppler in the quantification of stress echocardiography for the detection of myocardial ischemia in clinical practice
... to stress echocardi- ography the technique that will solve it all? According to major journals the answer is yes: the diagnostic accuracy of stress echocardiography improves with TDI when ana- lyzed ...
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Quantitative detection of myocardial ischaemia by stress echocardiography; a comparison with SPECT
... atropine stress echocardiography (DSE) are sug- gested when exercise ECG are non-diagnostic or non-inter- pretable ...Adenosine stress echocardiography (ASE) can also be used for ischaemia ...
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Combination of contrast with stress echocardiography: A practical guide to methods and interpretation
... Stress echocardiography is an established clinical tool with a high sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease ...During stress echo the diagnosis of CAD is based on ...
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Low-dose adenosine stress echocardiography: Detection of myocardial viability
... [5–9]. Echocardiography using low and high doses of dobutamine [10,11] and dipyridamole [12], or both [13], was also successfully introduced as a cost-effective method with comparable diagnostic potential ...
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Assessment of dipyridamole stress echocardiography for risk stratification of diabetic patients
... We retrospectively assessed 483 consecutive diabetic pa- tients (294 women), with a mean age of 63.41 ± 11.28 years, who underwent dipyridamole stress echocardiography be- tween July 2006 and December 2012 ...
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Role of Stress Echocardiography in the functional assessment of prosthetic Mitral Valve.
... doing stress echocardiography with supine bicycle exercise and dobutamine ...of stress and more so with dobutamine administration. At maximum stress, exercise yielded significant increase in ...
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Physical Stress Echocardiography Evaluation in Athletes with Bicuspid Aortic Valves
... physical stress echocardiography in early identifica- tion of any possible dissimilarities in the Left Ventricle (LV) performance and the valve functioning of asymptomatic BAV athletes as compared to the ...
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Feasibility, safety and tolerability of accelerated dobutamine stress echocardiography
... described with the standard protocol; the most common were frequent premature ventricular complexes (21.5%), frequent premature atrial complexes (1.5%) and non sustained ventricular tachycardia (1.5%); among non cardiac ...
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Stress-echocardiography in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: instructions for use
... tachycardia in 1.6%) [10]. Although there are no data on the association of complex ventricular arrhythmias and serum potassium concentrations, it may be postulated that complex arrhythmias are more frequent in potassium ...
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The clinical use of stress echocardiography in ischemic heart disease
... vasodilator stress has entered the echo lab as an effective modality for both diagnostic and prognos- tic purposes ...on stress echocardiography with a normal CFR confers an annual risk of death ...
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The new clinical standard of integrated quadruple stress echocardiography with ABCD protocol
... Stress echocardiography (SE) is since decades an estab- lished technique for coronary artery disease (CAD) detec- tion and risk stratification [1], with a recognized position in expert recommendations of ...
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Does stress echocardiography add incremental value to baseline ejection fraction for the early identification of candidates for implantable defibrillators?
... during stress echocardiography was not statistically different at ...during stress echocardiography was also not significant for patients with STEMI ...and stress echocardiographies, ...
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Target heart rate to determine the normal value of coronary flow reserve during dobutamine stress echocardiography
... dobutamine stress echocardiography, we ignored the necessary heart rate to consider sufficient the test for the analysis of ...dobutamine stress echocardiography and the heart rate value ...
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The Benefit of Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography in the Detection of Silent Myocardial Ischemia in Non-Diabetic Hemodialysis Patients
... Echo graphic recordings were made in the same center and by the same senior cardiologist featuring the required experience. All antihypertensive drugs known to have anti-ischemic actions were suspended before the study ...
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Risk Stratification after Myocardial Infarction using Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography
... Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography (Normal, viable without ischaemia, viable with ischaemia, not viable and ischaemia on stress) were compared with the pretest ...
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Prognostic Utility of Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography in the Obese African American Population
... Background: The predictive value of Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography (DSE) in the obese African American pa- tient population is not well known. Methods: We conducted a retrospective study of 555 African ...
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Clinical applications of exercise stress echocardiography in the treadmill with upright evaluation during and after exercise
... exercise stress echocardiography was performed and during the study we unexpectedly detected a 102 mmHg intra-ventricular gradient (Additional file 9) [43] and systolic anterior movement of the mitral valve ...
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The diagnostic accuracy of pharmacological stress echocardiography for the assessment of coronary artery disease: a meta-analysis
... ated pro-ischemic effect prevails. The exposure of steal- vulnerable myocardium to excessive amount of adenosine will "burn" the myocardium, with ischemia induction which is the necessary end-point for ...
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