학술논문
Usefulness of myocardial viability or ischemia in predicting long-term survival for patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction undergoing revascularization
Document Type
Article
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Subject
*CORONARY disease
*ISCHEMIA
*MYOCARDIAL revascularization
*CARDIOMYOPATHIES
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ISSN
0002-9149
Abstract
In 107 patients with coronary disease and severe left ventricular dysfunction, we examined the prognostic power of viability identified by dobutamine stress echocardiography. At a mean follow-up of 27 months, patients with viable myocardium who underwent revascularization had a significant survival advantage over all other patients (2-year survival 83.5% vs 57.2%, p = 0.0037). [Copyright &y& Elsevier]