patients with higher risk coronary stenoses, where there may be intermittent ischemia that results in subtle forms of stunning that may be detectable with strain measurements. However, stress-echocardiography (SE), either pharmacologic or with exercise
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Rest global longitudinal 2D strain to detect coronary artery disease in patients undergoing stress echocardiography: a comparison with wall-motion and coronary flow reserve responses
Nicola Gaibazzi, Filippo Pigazzani, Claudio Reverberi, and Thomas R Porter
Non-ischaemic cardiac conditions: role of stress echocardiography
Adrian Chenzbraun
Introduction Introduced in the 1970s (1) , stress echocardiography (SE) is presently a main diagnostic functional test for individuals with known or suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) (2) , (3) . It is defined as the conjoint use of 2D
Dobutamine stress echocardiography after cardiac transplantation: implications of donor–recipient age difference
Patrick H Gibson, Fernando Riesgo, Jonathan B Choy, Daniel H Kim, and Harald Becher
Introduction Dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) is commonly performed during follow-up after cardiac transplantation as part of surveillance for the diagnosis of cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV). Previous studies have demonstrated the
Does stress echocardiography still have a role in the rapid access chest pain clinic post NICE CG95?
Victoria Pettemerides, Thomas Turner, Conor Steele, and Anita Macnab
, especially myocardial perfusion imaging and stress echocardiography in this setting ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ), and this underpins both European and American guidelines ( 7 , 8 ). Up until 2016 in the United Kingdom, functional imaging was also
What's the risk? Assessment of patients with stable chest pain
Arzu Cubukcu, Ian Murray, and Simon Anderson
CAD and ETT result. Further tests included stress echocardiography and coronary angiography. Results from these investigations were recorded and the estimated risk of CAD was compared with the actual prevalence of disease within the individual
A physiologist observing and reporting supra-pharmacologic dobutamine stress testing: can we trust them, and can we trust the results?
Thomas R Porter
Dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) has been utilized extensively in the detection of coronary artery disease (CAD) and prediction of patient outcome ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ). Its safety has also been thoroughly investigated in the contemporary
Prognostic importance of tissue velocity imaging during exercise echocardiography in patients with systolic heart failure
Jet van Zalen, Nikhil R Patel, Steven J Podd, Prashanth Raju, Rob McIntosh, Gary Brickley, Louisa Beale, Lydia P Sturridge, and Guy W L Lloyd
ejection fraction (LVEF) has been shown to be a poor predictor of exercise capacity (4) , (5) . Several studies have suggested the additional value that stress echocardiography has on exercise capacity and symptoms ( 5 , 6 , 7 ) and prognosis ( 8 , 9
Safety and efficacy of physiologist-led dobutamine stress echocardiography
Keith Pearce and John Chambers
cardiac physiologist’. He reminds us ‘that the biggest danger associated with dobutamine stress echocardiography is in misinterpreting the data obtained…’. Did Ntoskas et al . ( 2 ) really misinterpret the data? Dr Porter states that 7 patients with
Impact of age on pulmonary artery systolic pressures at rest and with exercise
Garvan C Kane, Arun Sachdev, Hector R Villarraga, Naser M Ammash, Jae K Oh, Michael D McGoon, Patricia A Pellikka, and Robert B McCully
easy to perform and can readily be applied to standard treadmill stress echocardiography currently performed for the evaluation of possible myocardial ischemia, without negating the diagnostic accuracy of the wall motion assessment, potentially serving
Contractile reserve as a predictor of prognosis in patients with non-ischaemic systolic heart failure and dilated cardiomyopathy: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Peter H Waddingham, Sanjeev Bhattacharyya, Jet Van Zalen, and Guy Lloyd
recent meta-analysis and meta-regression study of 117 prognostic models revealed only a moderate accuracy of models predicting mortality ( 3 ). Stress echocardiography plays a role in the assessment of a range of cardiac disease as evidenced by current