Dobutamine stress MRI versus threedimensional contrast echocardiography: It's all Black and White.
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.).
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Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands and 2nd Department of Medicine and Cardiology Centre, Medical Faculty, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.
Geleijnse
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van Geuns
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Soliman
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Vletter
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Krenning
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Ten Cate
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