recommendations. A new section on the use of intraoperative transesophageal
echocardiography (TEE) is being added to update the guidelines published by the American …

Stress echocardiography is the combination of echocardiography with a physical,
pharmacological, or electrical stress. The diagnostic endpoint for the detection of myocardial …

Stress echocardiography is the combination of 2D echocardiography with a physical,
pharmacological or electrical stress. The diagnostic end point for the detection of myocardial …

Background—The analysis of wall motion abnormalities with dobutamine stress
echocardiography (DSE) is an established method for the detection of myocardial ischemia …

It is important that the medical profession play a significant role in critically evaluating the
use of diagnostic procedures and therapies in the management or prevention of disease …

It is clearly important that the medical profession plays a significant role in critically
evaluation of the use of diagnostic procedures and therapies in the management or …

Context.—Cardiac imaging has advanced rapidly, providing clinicians with several choices
for evaluating patients with suspected coronary artery disease, but few studies compare …

Large numbers of patients referred for evaluation of chest pain are unable to perform
adequate, diagnostic exercise testing. In these patients, dobutamine stress …

Background: Exercise stress testing offers a non‐invasive, less expensive way of risk
stratification prior to coronary angiography, and a negative stress test may actually avoid …

Objectives: This study examined the effect of aspirin on the risk of embolic events in infective
endocarditis (IE). Background: Embolism is a major complication of IE, and studies in animal …