Why the study?
Does real-time three-dimensional dobutamine stress echocardiography improve the detection of myocardial ischemia compared to two-dimensional echocardiography in patients referred for coronary angiography?
Population
56 patients referred for coronary angiography, mean age 64.5 years, 38 males
Comparison
Real-time three-dimensional dobutamine stress… vs Two-dimensional dobutamine stress echocardiography
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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RT3DE's shorter acquisition may aid workflow in stress echocardiography; leaves open whether it improves ischemia detection over 2DE.
Does real-time three-dimensional dobutamine stress echocardiography improve the detection of myocardial ischemia compared to two-dimensional echocardiography in patients referred for coronary angiography?
Real-time 3D dobutamine stress echocardiography offers equivalent diagnostic accuracy to 2D echocardiography for detecting coronary artery disease, with the advantage of significantly shorter acquisition times and better detection of apical wall-motion abnormalities.
Aggeli et al. (2006) studied this question.
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