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Assessing Myocardial Viability: Principles and the Role of Echocardiography

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It is the purpose of this chapter to review the actual understanding of the pathophysiology of chronically dysfunctional but viable myocardium and its implications for detection of myocardial viability using echocardiography but also to discuss the clinical role of myocardial viability at present time.

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  1. Division of Cardiology, Cliniques Universitaires St Luc, Brussels, Belgium

    Agnès Pasquet, Bernhard Gerber & Jean-Louis J. Vanoverschelde

  2. Pole of Cardiovascular Research (CARD), Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, Division of Cardiology, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Cliniques Universitaires St. Luc Université Cathologique, Brussels, Belgium

    Agnès Pasquet, Bernhard Gerber & Jean-Louis J. Vanoverschelde

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  1. Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London National Heart & Lung Institute, London, UK

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  2. Duke Heart Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

    Joseph Kisslo

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Pasquet, A., Gerber, B., Vanoverschelde, JL.J. (2018). Assessing Myocardial Viability: Principles and the Role of Echocardiography. In: Nihoyannopoulos, P., Kisslo, J. (eds) Echocardiography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71617-6_22

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