Does everyone in heart failure need echocardiography?
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Stress echocardiography in heart failure
Echocardiography has the ability to noninvasively explore hemodynamic variables during pharmacologic or exercise stress test in patients with heart failure. In this review, we detail some important potential applications of stress echocardiography in patients with heart failure. In patients with coronary artery disease and chronic LV dysfunction, dobutamine stress echocardiography is able to di...
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عنوان ژورنال: Age and Ageing
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1468-2834
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/28.5.421