The role of stress echocardiography versus stress perfusion: A view from the other side

Farooq A. Chaudhry

Volume 3, Issue 6 / November , 1996

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Conclusion

Stress echocardiograph is highly versatile, safe, cost-effective, efficient, and noninvasive and a readily accessible means of detecting, evaluating, risk statifying, and prognosticating patients with CAD. Dobutamine echocardiography has also shown promise for the assessment of viability in patients with both acute and chronic reversible left ventricular systolic dysfunction.

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