Left ventricular volume analysis during dobutamine stress echocardiography: a trend towards quantification.
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Non-invasive techniques have become the workhorse of cardiologists for the diagnosis and risk stratification of patients with suspected coronary heart disease. To date, pharmacological stress echocardiography represents an alternative, exercise-independent stress modality and has become an established method for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. In a recent review article, Geleijnse and co-workers reported for a total of 2246 patients an overall sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of dobutamine stress echocardiography of 80%, 84% and 81%, respectively. Although widely used, stress echocardiography has several limitations related mainly to the requirement for:
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عنوان ژورنال:
- European journal of echocardiography : the journal of the Working Group on Echocardiography of the European Society of Cardiology
دوره 1 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2000