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Neth Heart J. 2008 Jun;16(6):217-8. doi: 10.1007/BF03086148.

Dobutamine stress MRI versus threedimensional contrast echocardiography: It's all Black and White.

Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation

A Nemes, M L Geleijnse, R-J van Geuns, O I I Soliman, W B Vletter, B J Krenning, F J Ten Cate

Affiliations

  1. Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands and 2nd Department of Medicine and Cardiology Centre, Medical Faculty, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.

PMID: 18665207 PMCID: PMC2442665 DOI: 10.1007/BF03086148

Abstract

Dobutamine stress magnetic resonance imaging is considered the superior stress modality to detect wall motion abnormalities. In this report we demonstrate the strengths of a newly developed stress modality: dobutamine stress contrastenhanced real-time three-dimensional echocardiography. This stress modality may become a competitor of stress magnetic resonance imaging allowing fast acquisition and an unlimited number of left ventricular cross sections. Unfortunately, at the moment adequate imaging with stress realtime three-dimensional echocardiography is only possible in a minority of cardiac patients. (Neth Heart J 2008;16:217-8.).

Keywords: contrast echocardiography; magnetic resonance imaging, threedimensional; stress echocardiography

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