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Dobutamine stress magnetic resonance imaging is considered the superior stress modality to detect wall motion abnormalities. In this report we demonstrate the strengths of a newly developed stress modality: dobutamine stress contrastenhanced real-time three-dimensional echocardiography. This stress modality may become a competitor of stress magnetic resonance imaging allowing fast acquisition and an unlimited number of left ventricular cross sections. Unfortunately, at the moment adequate imaging with stress realtime three-dimensional echocardiography is only possible in a minority of cardiac patients. (Neth Heart J 2008;16:217-8.)
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Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands and 2nd Department of Medicine and Cardiology Centre, Medical Faculty, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Department of Cardiology, Al-Hussein University Hospital, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
Correspondence to: F.J. ten Cate Department of Cardiology, Room Ba304, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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Nemes, A., Geleijnse, M.L., van Geuns, RJ. et al. Dobutamine stress MRI versus threedimensional contrast echocardiography: It’s all Black and White. NHJL 16, 217–218 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03086148
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03086148