Dobutamine stress echocardiography identifies hibernating myocardium and predicts recovery of left ventricular function after coronary revascularization.

Abstract

Dobutamine stress echocardiography provides a simple, cost-effective, and widely available method of identifying hibernating myocardium and predicting improvement in regional left ventricular wall thickening after coronary revascularization. This technique may be clinically valuable in the selection of patients for coronary revascularization.