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Coronary Heart Disease

Study Data from W. Mathias and Co-Authors Update Knowledge of Coronary Heart Disease

Published in Biotech Week, November 16th, 2011

2011 NOV 16 -- "Although dobutamine-atropine stress echocardiography (DASE) has been widely used for evaluating patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), dynamic changes that occur at microcirculatory level during each stage of stress have not been demonstrated in humans. We sought to determine variations in myocardial blood flow (MBF) during DASE using quantitative real time myocardial contrast echocardiography (RTMCE)," investigators in Sao Paulo, Brazil report.

"We studied 45 patients who underwent coronary angiography and RTMCE. Replenishment velocity of microbubbles in the myocardium (beta) and MBF reserves were obtained at baseline, intermediate...

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