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Stress Echocardiography
Author(s) -
SEBASTIAN CHERIAN,
PATEL JANMEJAY J.,
SADANIANTZ ARA,
JOACHIM NESSER H.,
J CURRIE PHILIP,
NANDA NAVIN C.,
CHANDRASEKARAN KRISHNASWAMY
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1998.tb00667.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , coronary artery disease , stress echocardiography , chest pain , myocardial infarction , radiology , stress testing (software) , computer science , programming language
Stress echocardiography, both pharmacologic and physiological, is an established noninvasive diagnostic method of detecting coronary artery disease. It also has a role in the assessment of patients with chest pain, the assessment of cardiovascular risk before noncardiac surgery, the assessment of patients after a myocardial infarction, the detection of viability in dysfunctional myocardium, and the prediction of functional recovery. The prognostic value of stress echocardiography is emerging. In this article, we discuss the methodology, diagnostic accuracy, and various clinical applications of stress echocardiography. We also review its limitations and compared it with other noninvasive methods of assessing patients with coronary artery disease.