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lüll Methodology, feasibility, safety and diagnostic accuracy of dobutamine stress echocardiography Geleijnse ML; Fioretti PM; Roelandt JRJ Am Coll Cardiol 1997[Sep]; 30 (3): 595-606Large numbers of patients referred for evaluation of chest pain are unable to perform adequate, diagnostic exercise testing. In these patients, dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) represents an alternative, exercise-independent stress modality. Apart from the approximately 5% of patients with an inadequate acoustic window, 10% of patients referred for this test have nondiagnostic (submaximal negative) test results. Serious side effects during or shortly after DSE are uncommon, with ventricular fibrillation or myocardial infarction occurring in approximately 1 of 2,000 studies. No deaths have been reported. On the basis of a total number of 2,246 patients, reported in 28 studies, the sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of the test for the detection of coronary artery disease (CAD) were 80%, 84% and 81%, respectively. Mean sensitivities for one-, two- and three-vessel disease were 74%, 86% and 92%, respectively. The sensitivity for detection of disease in the left circumflex coronary artery (55%) was lower, both compared with that for left anterior descending (72%) and right coronary artery disease (76%). The sensitivity of predicting multivessel disease by multiregion echocardiographic abnormalities varied widely, from 8% to 71%. In direct comparisons, DSE was superior to exercise electrocardiography and dipyridamole echocardiography and comparable to exercise echocardiography and radionuclide imaging. DSE is a useful, feasible and safe exercise-independent stress modality for assessing the presence, localization and extent of CAD.|*Dobutamine[MESH]|Coronary Disease/diagnosis/*diagnostic imaging[MESH]|Echocardiography/*methods[MESH]|Exercise Test[MESH]|Humans[MESH]|Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular/diagnostic imaging[MESH]|Observer Variation[MESH]|Sensitivity and Specificity[MESH] |