TY - JOUR
AU - Hirata, Ken-ichi
AB - J Echocardiogr (2016) 14:163–170 DOI 10.1007/s12574-016-0302-8 ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION Myocardial blood volume reserve by intravenous contrast echocardiography predicts improvement in left ventricular function in patients with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy 1 1,2 1 1 • • • • Yoko Miyata-Fukuoka Hiroya Kawai Osamu Iseki Yoshio Yamanaka 1 2 1 • • Yoshiaki Ueda Mitsuhiro Yokoyama Ken-ichi Hirata Received: 7 May 2015 / Revised: 20 June 2016 / Accepted: 28 June 2016 / Published online: 9 July 2016 Japanese Society of Echocardiography 2016 Abstract with ATP may provide useful information to evaluate Background Impaired myocardial perfusion has been MBV reserve. shown in nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Intravenous myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) Keywords Intravenous myocardial contrast has been introduced to examine myocardial blood volume echocardiography  Nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (MBV) noninvasively. This study was designed to evaluate Myocardial blood volume reserve  Efficacy of medical if MBV reserve assessed by intravenous MCE with ade- therapy nosine triphosphate (ATP) can predict efficacy of optimal medical therapy in patients with DCM. Methods and results Fifteen DCM patients and 8 control Introduction subjects underwent conventional echocardiography and intravenous MCE. We obtained the change in peak contrast Nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a primary integrated backscatter intensity 
TI - Myocardial blood volume reserve by intravenous contrast echocardiography predicts improvement in left ventricular function in patients with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy
JF - Journal of Echocardiography
DO - 10.1007/s12574-016-0302-8
DA - 2016-07-09
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/myocardial-blood-volume-reserve-by-intravenous-contrast-Eb8SzdvhE4
SP - 163
EP - 170
VL - 14
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -