The significance of E/E′ to detect coronary artery disease during dobutamine stress echocardiography

Aim: To determine how the left ventricular diastolic filling pressure determined by E/E′ during dobutamine stress echocardiographic (DSE) by tissue Doppler Imaging (TDI) is affected by the presence and the severity of coronary artery disease (CAD) among patients with stable angina pectoris and also...

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Main Author: Islam A. Elsherbiny
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2012-03-01
Series:The Egyptian Heart Journal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110260811000470