Open AccessCurrent status of stress echocardiography
Author(s) -
Lewis Jannet F.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
clinical cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.263
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1932-8737
pISSN - 0160-9289
DOI - 10.1002/clc.4960230404
Subject(s) - medicine , stress echocardiography , coronary artery disease , cardiology , exercise tolerance test , radiology , second harmonic imaging microscopy , stress testing (software) , laser , heart rate , physics , computer science , blood pressure , optics , programming language , second harmonic generation
Stress echocardiography is a widely applied technique for the evaluation of individuals with known or suspected coronary artery disease. The technique combines echocardiographic imaging with exercise testing or pharmacologic stress. Advances in digital image acquisition and harmonic imaging have substantially improved the quality of echocardiographic images, and have therefore increased general applicability of stress echocardiography.