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

Exercise testing has an established role in the evaluation of patients with valvular heart
disease and can aid clinical decision making. Because symptoms may develop slowly and …

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

Color Doppler myocardial imaging is a new technique that has been developed specifically
to allow color Doppler imaging of myocardial wall motion rather than blood pool imaging …

Objectives”, explains how to select and use various test methods for evaluating disease
states, the prognosis, and the effects of treatment. References to the literature published …

Diagnostic tests that are hazardous or infeasible, or both, may become accepted before
inadequacies are recognised; only multicentre trials can provide the necessary information …

In clinical decision making, myocardial viability is defined as myocardium in acute or chronic
coronary artery disease and other conditions with contractile dysfunction but maintained …

BACKGROUND Exercise and pharmacological stress echocardiography have emerged as
convenient alternatives to myocardial scintigraphy. The objective of this study was to …

Background Stress echocardiography (SE) has an established role in evidence-based
guidelines, but recently its breadth and variety of applications have extended well beyond …

Stress echocardiography is an established method for the diagnosis and prognostic
stratification of coronary artery disease. In the last few years, the tremendous technological …