Dobutamine stress echocardiography: does it predict response to beta-blockers in patients with heart failure?

Curr Heart Fail Rep

Division of Cardiology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY 10025, USA.

Published: June 2006

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