Dobutamine thallium-201 tomography for evaluating patients with suspected coronary artery disease unable to undergo exercise or vasodilator pharmacologic stress testing

Effects of adenosine on human coronary arterial circulation.

1990 • 898 citations

Echocardiographic detection of coronary artery disease during dobutamine infusion.

1991 • 702 citations

Dobutamine: development of a new catecholamine to selectively increase cardiac contractility.

1975 • 625 citations

Differentiation of transiently ischemic from infarcted myocardium by serial imaging after a single dose of thallium-201.

1977 • 574 citations

Noninvasive assessment of coronary stenoses by myocardial perfusion imaging during pharmacologie coronary vasodilatation

1978 • 470 citations

Comparative systemic and regional hemodynamic effects of dopamine and dobutamine in patients with cardiomyopathic heart failure.

1978 • 426 citations

Prognostic value of exercise thallium-201 imaging in patients presenting for evaluation of chest pain

1983 • 345 citations

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

1986 • 343 citations

Serial thallium-201 myocardial imaging after dipyridamole infusion: diagnostic utility in detecting coronary stenoses and relationship to regional wall motion.

1982 • 316 citations

Diagnosis of coronary artery disease by controlled coronary vasodilation with adenosine and thallium-201 scintigraphy in patients unable to exercise.

1990 • 309 citations

The physiologic basis of dobutamine as compared with dipyridamole stress interventions in the assessment of critical coronary stenosis.

1987 • 244 citations

Single photon emission computed tomography with thallium-201 during adenosine-induced coronary hyperemia: Correlation with coronary arteriography, exercise thallium imaging and two-dimensional echocardiography

1990 • 240 citations

Quantitative exercise thallium-201 single photon emission computed tomography for the enhanced diagnosis of ischemic heart disease

1990 • 234 citations

Influence of dobutamine on hemodynamics and coronary blood flow in patients with and without coronary artery disease

1976 • 191 citations

Superiority of quantitative exercise thallium-201 variables in determining long-term prognosis in ambulatory patients with chest pain: A comparison with cardiac catheterization

1988 • 184 citations

Dobutamine thallium myocardial perfusion tomography

1991 • 154 citations

Thallium scintigraphy during dobutamine infusion: Nonexercise-dependent screening test for coronary disease

1984 • 148 citations

Prognostic significance of normal quantitative planar thallium-201 stress scintigraphy in patients with chest pain

1985 • 135 citations

Prognostic implications of exercise thallium-201 scintigraphy in patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease

1985 • 133 citations

Dobutamine versus dipyridamole echocardiography in coronary artery disease.

1991 • 123 citations

Quantitative thallium-201 single-photon emission computed tomography during maximal pharmacologic coronary vasodilation with adenosine for assessing coronary artery disease

1991 • 120 citations

The variable extent of jeopardized myocardium in patients with single vessel coronary artery disease: Quantification by thallium-201 single photon emission computed tomography

1991 • 101 citations

Exercise thallium-201 perfusion scintigraphy in the assessment of coronary artery disease

1991 • 91 citations

Effects of dipyridamole on myocardial adenosine and active hyperemia

1984 • 89 citations

Quantitative thallium-201 single photon emission computed tomography after oral dipyridamole for assessing the presence, anatomic location and severity of coronary artery disease

1988 • 88 citations

Dobutamine and dopamine after cardiac surgery: greater augmentation of myocardial blood flow with dobutamine.

1984 • 82 citations

Hemodynamic effects of dobutamine in patients following open heart surgery.

1977 • 82 citations

Redistribution of myocardial blood flow distal to a dynamic coronary arterial stenosis by sympathomimetic amines

1981 • 77 citations

Myocardial oxygen consumption: effects of epinephrine, isoproterenol, dopamine, norepinephrine, and dobutamine

1978 • 76 citations

Altered myocardial perfusion in patients with angina pectoris or silent ischemia during exercise as assessed by quantitative thallium-201 single-photon emission computed tomography.

1990 • 54 citations

A Comparison of Dobutamine Infusion and Supine Bicycle Exercise for Radionuclide Cardiac Stress Testing

1984 • 48 citations