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Abstract This study was done for the assessment of pulsed tissue Doppler imaging during low dose Dobutamine stress echocardiography as a quantitative measure for detection of regional myocardial viability. In our study, patients were selected from patients referred to our cardiology department, Zagazig University Hospitals during the period between august 2003 to august 2004. This study included 60 individuals, 50 of them suffering from ischemic systolic dysfunction and 10 normal subjects as a control. They were classified according to the functional recovery into: I-Group I: Ischemic group include 50 patients suffering from ischemic heart disease with EF :s 50 % which subdivided according to functional recovery (improvement of EF > 10% after revascularization) into; • Subgroup A: the viable group; and there number were 39 patients . • Subgroup B: the non viable group; and there number were 11 patients. The ischemic group included 46 male (92 %) and 4 female (8 %) with mean age of 51.18 ± 7.16 years. |