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Can tissue Doppler imaging detect myocardial viability in patients with left ventricular dysfunction?

Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine volume 4, pages 644–645 (2007)Cite this article

boxed-textPenicka M et al. (2007) Myocardial positive pre-ejection velocity accurately detects presence of viable myocardium, predicts recovery of left ventricular function and bears a prognostic value after surgical revascularization. Eur Heart J 28: 1366–1373

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  1. JJ Bax is Professor of Cardiology and Director of Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging at the Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden,

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  2. D Poldermans is Professor of Medicine at the Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,

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JJ Bax and D Poldermans have received research support from Bristol-Myers Squibb Medical Imaging and GE Healthcare.

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