Stress Echocardiography: Recommendations for Performance and Interpretation of Stress Echocardiography

Identification of viable myocardium by echocardiography during dobutamine infusion in patients with myocardial infarction after thrombolytic therapy: Comparison with positron emission tomography

1990 • 728 citations

Echocardiographic detection of coronary artery disease during dobutamine infusion.

1991 • 702 citations

Stress echocardiography and the human factor: The importance of being expert

1991 • 547 citations

Dobutamine Echocardiography in Myocardial Hibernation

1995 • 533 citations

Dobutamine stress echocardiography identifies hibernating myocardium and predicts recovery of left ventricular function after coronary revascularization.

1993 • 515 citations

Low-dose dobutamine echocardiography detects reversible dysfunction after thrombolytic therapy of acute myocardial infarction.

1993 • 406 citations

Symptoms, adverse effects, and complications associated with dobutamine stress echocardiography. Experience in 1118 patients.

1993 • 397 citations

Accuracy and limitations of exercise echocardiography in a routine clinical setting

1992 • 379 citations

Echocardiography during infusion of dobutamine for identification of reversible dyfunction in patients with chronic coronary artery disease

1994 • 368 citations

Selection of the optimal nonexercise stress for the evaluation of ischemic regional myocardial dysfunction and malperfusion. Comparison of dobutamine and adenosine using echocardiography and 99mTc-MIBI single photon emission computed tomography.

1993 • 368 citations

Optimal use of dobutamine stress for the detection and evaluation of coronary artery disease: Combination with echocardiography or scintigraphy, or both?

1993 • 361 citations

Usefulness of dobutamine echocardiography in distinguishing severe from nonsevere valvular aortic stenosis in patients with depressed left ventricular function and low transvalvular gradients

1995 • 360 citations

High dose dipyridamole echocardiography test in effort angina pectoris

1986 • 346 citations

Predicting the extent and location of coronary artery disease in acute myocardial infarction by echocardiography during dobutamine infusion

1986 • 343 citations

Accuracy of dobutamine stress echocardiography in detecting coronary artery disease

1992 • 326 citations

Exercise echocardiography versus 201Tl single-photon emission computed tomography in evaluation of coronary artery disease. Analysis of 292 patients.

1992 • 319 citations

Dobutamine stress echocardiography for assessment of perioperative cardiac risk in patients undergoing major vascular surgery.

1993 • 304 citations

Improved cardiac risk stratification in major vascular surgery with dobutamine-atropine stress echocardiography

1995 • 274 citations

Low-dose dobutamine in patients with acute myocardial infarction identifies viable but not contractile myocardium and predicts the magnitude of improvement in wall motion abnormalities in response to coronary revascularization

1991 • 269 citations

Meta-analysis of intravenous dipyridamole-thallium-201 imaging (1985 to 1994) and dobutamine echocardiography (1991 to 1994) for risk stratification before vascular surgery

1996 • 268 citations

Dobutamine Echocardiography Predicts Improvement of Hypoperfused Dysfunctional Myocardium After Revascularization in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease

1995 • 258 citations

Value of rest thallium-201/technetium-99m sestamibi scans and dobutamine echocardiography for detecting myocardial viability

1993 • 237 citations

Dobutamine digital echocardiography for detecting coronary artery disease

1991 • 234 citations

Complementary Value of Two-Dimensional Exercise Echocardiography to Routine Treadmill Exercise Testing

1986 • 230 citations

Effect of prior myocardial infarction and extent and location of coronary disease on accuracy of exercise echocardiography

1987 • 226 citations

Exercise echocardiography as a screening test for coronary artery disease and correlation with coronary arteriography

1991 • 215 citations

Dobutamine stress echocardiography predicts surgical outcome in patients with an aortic aneurysm and peripheral vascular disease

1993 • 208 citations

Detection of coronary artery disease with exercise two-dimensional echocardiography. Description of a clinically applicable method and comparison with radionuclide ventriculography.

1983 • 195 citations

Comparison of Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography and Low-Dose Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography in Predicting Recovery of Left Ventricular Function After Coronary Revascularization in Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease

1995 • 193 citations

Prognostic value of a normal exercise echocardiogram

1990 • 191 citations

Diagnostic and prognostic value of dipyridamole echocardiography in patients with suspected coronary artery disease. Comparison with exercise electrocardiography.

1994 • 177 citations

Risk stratification after acute myocardial infarction by means of exercise two-dimensional echocardiography

1987 • 175 citations

Simultaneous dobutamine stress echocardiography and technetium-99m isonitrile single-photon emission computed tomography in patients with suspected coronary artery disease

1993 • 174 citations

Prognostic value of dipyridamole echocardiography early after uncomplicated myocardial infarction: A large-scale, multicenter trial

1993 • 171 citations

Dobutamine stress echocardiography as a predictor of cardiac events associated with aortic surgery

1992 • 164 citations

Exercise echocardiographic detection of coronary artery disease in women

1989 • 163 citations

Safety of intravenous high-dose dipyridamole echocardiography

1992 • 155 citations

Dobutamine stress echocardiography predicts reversible dysfunction and quantitates the extent of irreversibly damaged myocardium after reperfusion of anterior myocardial infarction

1994 • 147 citations

Usefulness of two-dimensional exercise echocardiography shortly after myocardial infarction

1986 • 147 citations

Effects of exercise on transmitral gradient and pulmonary artery pressure in patients with mitral stenosis or a prosthetic mitral valve: A doppler echocardiographic study

1991 • 144 citations

Dobutamine stress echocardiography for assessment of cardiac risk before noncardiac surgery

1991 • 138 citations

Detection of Coronary Artery Disease With Upright Bicycle Exercise Echocardiography

1993 • 137 citations

Prognostic usefulness of positive or negative exercise stress echocardiography for predicting coronary events in ensuing twelve months

1993 • 125 citations

Dobutamine stress echocardiography: Sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value for future cardiac events

1994 • 111 citations

Identification of multivessel coronary artery disease by exercise echocardiography

1994 • 108 citations

Evaluation using dobutamine stress echocardiography in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus before kidney and/or pancreas transplantation

1996 • 102 citations

High Dose Dipyridamole-Echocardiography Test in Women: Correlation With Exercise-Electrocardiography Test and Coronary Arteriography

1988 • 101 citations

Diagnosis of ischemic heart disease with adenosine echocardiography

1991 • 96 citations

Digital supine bicycle stress echocardiography: A new technique for evaluating coronary artery disease

1993 • 96 citations

Detection of coronary artery disease by digital stress echocardiography: Comparison of exercise, transesophageal atrial pacing and dipyridamole echocardiography

1994 • 95 citations

Detection of coronary artery disease by two-dimensional echocardiography and transesophageal atrial pacing

1985 • 86 citations

Preoperative Selection of Patients With Severely Impaired Left Ventricular Function for Coronary Revascularization

1995 • 85 citations

Usefulness of the dipyridamole-exercise echocardiography test for diagnosis of coronary artery disease

1988 • 78 citations

Value of Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography in Determining the Prognosis of Patients With Known or Suspected Coronary Artery Disease

1996 • 78 citations

Stress echocardiography with transesophageal atrial pacing: preliminary report of a new method for detection of ischemic wall motion abnormalities.

1984 • 76 citations

Task force 4: Training in echocardiography

1995 • 74 citations

Prognostic value of dobutamine stress echocardiography in patients referred because of suspected coronary artery disease

1995 • 72 citations

Recommendations for Training in Performance and Interpretation of Stress Echocardiography

1998 • 71 citations

Exercise Doppler Echocardiography as an Aid to Clinical Decision Making in Mitral Valve Disease

1992 • 65 citations

Uses and limitations of exercise doppler echocardiography in the diagnosis of ischemic heart disease

1987 • 59 citations

Stress echocardiographic results predict risk of reinfarction early after uncomplicated acute myocardial infarction: Large-scale multicenter study

1995 • 55 citations

Prognostic value of predischarge exercise stress echocardiography after acute myocardial infarction

1995 • 47 citations

Validation of continuous-wave Doppler measurements of mitral valve gradients during exercise — a simultaneous Doppler-catheter study

1989 • 24 citations

Dobutamine stress echocardiography predicts early wall motion improvement after elective percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty

1995 • 12 citations

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