Pharmacological Stress Echo can Detect Viable Hearts Among Rejected Donor Hearts for Transplantation

A new study presented by Dr Tonino Bombardini at EUROECHO and other Imaging Modalities 2012 reveals that donor hearts rejected for transplantation due to donors' age or other risk factors can instead prove to be viable after conducting a pharmacological stress echo. EUROECHO and other Imaging Modalities 2012 is the annual meeting of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI)2, a registered branch of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)3. It takes ...

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