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Echocardiography for the assessment of myocardial viability.

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Lualdi, JC; Douglas, PS
Published in: J Am Soc Echocardiogr
September 1997

The identification of viable myocardium in the setting of acute myocardial infarction or chronic coronary artery disease with reduced left ventricular function has important prognostic and therapeutic implications. Many noninvasive methods have been used to assess viability, and recently, dobutamine stress echocardiography has been studied for this purpose. Dobutamine stress echocardiography is a safe, accessible, and relatively inexpensive technique. Moreover, its accuracy for detecting viability approaches that of positron emission tomography and thallium scintigraphy. In addition to dobutamine stress echocardiography, other echocardiographic techniques, such as myocardial contrast echocardiography and dipyridamole stress echocardiography, are being developed to delineate viability. In the future, echocardiographic methods may identify viability with enough accuracy to allow us to better select patients for revascularization procedures when the indications are otherwise unclear.

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J Am Soc Echocardiogr

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ISSN

0894-7317

Publication Date

September 1997

Volume

10

Issue

7

Start / End Page

772 / 780

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Ventricular Function, Left
  • Vasodilator Agents
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed
  • Tissue Survival
  • Thallium Radioisotopes
  • Safety
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Prognosis
  • Patient Selection
  • Myocardium
 

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Lualdi, J. C., & Douglas, P. S. (1997). Echocardiography for the assessment of myocardial viability. J Am Soc Echocardiogr, 10(7), 772–780. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0894-7317(97)70125-1
Lualdi, J. C., and P. S. Douglas. “Echocardiography for the assessment of myocardial viability.J Am Soc Echocardiogr 10, no. 7 (September 1997): 772–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0894-7317(97)70125-1.
Lualdi JC, Douglas PS. Echocardiography for the assessment of myocardial viability. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 1997 Sep;10(7):772–80.
Lualdi, J. C., and P. S. Douglas. “Echocardiography for the assessment of myocardial viability.J Am Soc Echocardiogr, vol. 10, no. 7, Sept. 1997, pp. 772–80. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/s0894-7317(97)70125-1.
Lualdi JC, Douglas PS. Echocardiography for the assessment of myocardial viability. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 1997 Sep;10(7):772–780.
Journal cover image

Published In

J Am Soc Echocardiogr

DOI

ISSN

0894-7317

Publication Date

September 1997

Volume

10

Issue

7

Start / End Page

772 / 780

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Ventricular Function, Left
  • Vasodilator Agents
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed
  • Tissue Survival
  • Thallium Radioisotopes
  • Safety
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Prognosis
  • Patient Selection
  • Myocardium