VALUE OF DOBUTAMINE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY FOR EVALUATION OF THE RESERVE MYOCARDIAL-CONTRACTILITY OF AORTIC-STENOSIS WITH ALTERATION OF LEFT-VENTRICULAR FUNCTION - A CASE-REPORT

Authors
DELUCHE L LAFFORT P PEPIN C VIRCOULON B BONNET J ROUDAUT R
Citation
L. Deluche et al., VALUE OF DOBUTAMINE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY FOR EVALUATION OF THE RESERVE MYOCARDIAL-CONTRACTILITY OF AORTIC-STENOSIS WITH ALTERATION OF LEFT-VENTRICULAR FUNCTION - A CASE-REPORT, Annales de cardiologie et d'angeiologie, 45(9), 1996, pp. 523-526
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System","Peripheal Vascular Diseas
Journal title
Annales de cardiologie et d'angeiologie → ACNP
ISSN journal
00033928
Volume
45
Issue
9
Year of publication
1996
Pages
523 - 526
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-3928(1996)45:9<523:VODEFE>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
The authors report a case of tight aortic stenosis, without coronary a rtery disease, presenting with heart failure, alteration of global lef t ventricular contractility and a low gradient. increasing-dose dobuta mine echocardiography demonstrated an improvement of myocardial contra ctility and an accentuation of the transvalvular gradient. The place o f this examination in the therapeutic strategy and follow-up of the di sease is discussed in the light of the current data of the literature.