Roelandt

TL;DR: Bisoprolol reduces the perioperative incidence of death from cardiac causes and nonfatal myocardial infarction in high-risk patients who are undergoing major vascular surgery.

TL;DR: Dobutamine-atropine myocardial perfusion scintigraphy is a feasible method for the evaluation of coronary artery disease with a safety profile and feasibility comparable to those reported for dobutamine stress echocardiography.

TL;DR: Treated hypertensive patients without known coronary artery disease have a similar prevalence and severity of myocardial perfusion abnormalities at rest and at dobutamine stress compared with normotensive patients with similar clinical characteristics.

TL;DR: The development of new dedicated algorithms for colour quantification, along with the beginning of the new era of digital echocardiography, should help bring Doppler tissue imaging into the clinical arena.

TL;DR: Preliminary data in patients with poor left ventricular function undergoing revascularization suggest that FDG SPECT can predict improvement of ventricularfunction after revascularizing, and although the initial results are promising, larger studies are needed to determine the precise role of FDGSPECT in the assessment of myocardial viability.