BACKGROUND Stress echocardiography is an established technique for diagnosis, risk stratification, and prognosis in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease. The ability of stress echocardiography to predict clinical outcomes, such as coronary angiography and revascularization, has not been reported previously. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical outcomes of c...

BACKGROUND The determination of coronary flow reserve (CFR) is an essential concept at the moment of decision-making in ischemic heart disease. There are several direct and indirect tests to evaluate this parameter. In this sense, dobutamine stress echocardiography is one of the pharmacological method most commonly used worldwide. It has been previously demonstrated that CFR can be determined b...

OBJECTIVES To systematically compare the results of dobutamine stress echocardiography in matched groups of hypertensive and normotensive patients with anginal chest pain and normal coronary arteriograms (CPNA). SETTING University hospital. SUBJECTS 33 patients with exertional anginal chest pain, a positive exercise stress ECG, and a completely normal coronary arteriogram; 17 had a history ...

morning at 7:00 AM by a group of cardiologists, radiologists, and vascular surgeons, at which time treatment recommendations are made by consensus. The same meeting is used to review successes, failures, and complications resulting from the proposed treatments. It is our strong feeling that such mutual cooperation-and respect-ultimately works to the best interest of the patient. Such a forum, i...

BACKGROUND Stress echocardiography is a valuable tool for the noninvasive diagnosis of ischemic heart disease. Despite its widely use in the clinical practice, safety and side effects profile have never been evaluated in Moroccans. THE AIM To assess the safety and tolerability of the two stress echo modalities in Moroccans. METHODS The study was made by 311 patients with known or suspected ...

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BACKGROUND Low-dose dobutamine stress echocardiography is specific for predicting reversible contractility dysfunction, but its sensitivity is lower than ideal. OBJECTIVE We sought to explore the predictors of myocardial contractile recovery following revascularization, in patients with no viability by low-dose dobutamine stress echocardiography. METHODS We prospectively enrolled 30 consecu...

Background and Purposes A novel method using quantitative long-axis function and tissue Doppler in addition to wall motion analysis in exercise stress echocardiography was evaluated. We hypothesized that the novel criteria added additional accuracy in stress echocardiography. Methods Patients with chest pain and at low-to-intermediate risk for obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) were retr...