Clinical research: echocardiographyAssessment of the physiologic significance of coronary disease with dipyridamole real-time myocardial contrast echocardiography: Comparison with technetium-99m sestamibi single-photon emission computed tomography and quantitative coronary angiography☆
This work was presented in part at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Heart Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2000.
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Abbreviations
CAD
coronary artery disease
LV
left ventricular
MBF
myocardial blood flow
MI
mechanical index
MIBI
methoxyisobutylisonitrile
QCA
quantitative coronary angiography
ROC
receiver-operating characteristics
RT-MCE
real-time myocardial contrast echocardiography
SPECT
single-photon emission computed tomography
99mTc
technetium-99m
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This work was supported in part by grant no. 3-4563-98 from the “Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique et Médicale” and grant no. 01/06-199 from the “Action de Recherche Concertée.” Dr. Peltier is supported by the “Société Française de Cardiologie,” Paris, France, and Dr. Ay by the “Damman Foundation,” Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
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