Abnormal Indexes of Left Ventricular Diastolic Filling During Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography in Women Is Dependent on Age and Not the Presence of Ischemia

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the Biomedicine '98 Meeting, held May 1-3, 1998, in Washington, D.C., "A previous study suggested that abnormal Doppler indexes of left ventricular early filling (DILVEF) during dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE), among a small cohort of middle age men with stable angina, was a sensitive marker for the detection of ischemia. However, no information is available regarding these Doppler indexes in women. Accordingly, to correlate the development of ischemic symptoms (Sx), electrocardiographic changes (ECG), and wall motion abnormalities (WMA) with the presence of abnormal transmittal flow velocities, we reviewed the results of two...

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