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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

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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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