Freeman Road Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne
Wall-thickness measurement may improve sensitivity of dobutamine stress ECG
Published in Cardiovascular Device Liability Week, June 12th, 2005
In a recent study, researchers in England conducted a study "to assess the diagnostic accuracy of baseline diastolic wall thickness (DWT) alone and as an adjunct to dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) for prediction of myocardial viability in patients with ischaemic left ventricular (LV) dysfunction, with the recovery of resting function after revascularization as the yardstick."
T. Zaglavara and colleagues of the Freeman Road Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne explained, "24 patients with...
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