The 20 year evolution of dobutamine stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance.
Over the past 20 years, investigators world-wide have developed and utilized dobutamine magnetic resonance stress testing procedures for the purpose of identifying ischemia, viability, and cardiac prognosis. This article traces these developments and reviews the data utilized to substantiate this relatively new noninvasive imaging procedure.
Department of Internal Medicine Section on Cardiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
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