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Assessment of Myocardial Viability by Pharmacological Stress Echocardiography

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Abstract

The assessment of myocardial viability is an issue of considerable clinical relevance in the current era of thrombolytic therapy and coronary revascularization1, 2 in selected cases (Figure 1). The awareness of the potential of even severe regional and global dyssynergic myocardium to improve its functional state, has resulted in a search for the optimal diagnostic approach for its noninvasive assessment. The identification of myocardial regions with high and low probability of functional improvement after myocardial infarction or revascularization is of vital importance since this can be crucial for the decision of performing revascularization procedures in individual patients with (multiple) severe wall motion abnormalities.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands

    E. E. van der Wall

  2. Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    P. K. Blanksma

  3. Department of Cardiology, Martini Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands

    M. G. Niemeyer

  4. PET Centre, University Hospital Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    A. M. J. Paans

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Cornel, J.H., Fioretti, P.M. (1995). Assessment of Myocardial Viability by Pharmacological Stress Echocardiography. In: van der Wall, E.E., Blanksma, P.K., Niemeyer, M.G., Paans, A.M.J. (eds) Cardiac Positron Emission Tomography. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 166. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0023-6_9

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