Why the study?
Does the presence of myocardial viability identified by low-dose dobutamine stress echocardiography predict survival in medically treated patients with global left ventricular dysfunction early after an acute uncomplicated myocardial infarction?
Population
314 medically treated patients evaluated 12+/-6 days after an acute uncomplicated myocardial infarction with…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
9+/-7 months
Authors
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Viability by low-dose DSE was associated with lower cardiac death post-MI; leaves open whether it should guide therapy in randomized trials.
Does the presence of myocardial viability identified by low-dose dobutamine stress echocardiography predict survival in medically treated patients with global left ventricular dysfunction early after an acute uncomplicated myocardial infarction?
In medically treated patients with severe global LV dysfunction early after uncomplicated MI, myocardial viability identified by low-dose dobutamine stress echocardiography is associated with improved survival, whereas inducible ischemia strongly predicts cardiac death.
Picano et al. (1998) studied this question.
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