, including stress echocardiography (SE), single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) ( 4 ). This article reviews the evidence underpinning the use of imaging techniques in patients with morbid obesity
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Stress echocardiography in patients with morbid obesity
Benoy N Shah and Roxy Senior
Exercise stress echocardiography in patients with valvular heart disease
Vishal Sharma, David E Newby, Ralph A H Stewart, Mildred Lee, Ruvin Gabriel, Niels Van Pelt, and Andrew J Kerr
guidelines. We aim to determine whether patients who demonstrate adverse features on stress echocardiography have a worse outcome during follow-up than those with normal exercise stress echocardiograms. A secondary aim was to compare the value of exercise
Stress echocardiography in contemporary clinical cardiology: practical considerations and accreditation
Benoy N Shah, Anita MacNab, Jane Lynch, Reinette Hampson, Roxy Senior, and Richard P Steeds
Introduction Stress echocardiography was initially employed as a non-invasive means of assessing patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) by comparing regional and global left ventricular systolic function at rest and on stress
Feasibility of physiologist-led stress echocardiography for the assessment of coronary artery disease
Jamal N Khan, Timothy Griffiths, Tamseel Fatima, Leah Michael, Andreea Mihai, Zeeshan Mustafa, Kully Sandhu, Robert Butler, Simon Duckett, and Grant Heatlie
Introduction The expanding responsibilities and skillset of the Highly Specialised Cardiac Echocardiography Physiologist include performance and analysis of exercise and dobutamine stress echocardiography studies ( 1 , 2 ). Physiologist
Impact of COVID-19 on UK stress echocardiography practice: insights from the EVAREST sites
Cameron Dockerill, William Woodward, Annabelle McCourt, Cristiana Monteiro, Elena Benedetto, Maria Paton, David Oxborough, Shaun Robinson, Keith Pearce, Mark J Monaghan, Daniel X Augustine, and Paul Leeson
patient’s contact with the healthcare professionals and to reduce risk of transmission via aerosol generating procedures ( 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ). Stress echocardiography is one of the most widely used tests to assess cardiac function and to determine whether
Stress echocardiography in coronary artery disease: a practical guideline from the British Society of Echocardiography
Richard P Steeds, Richard Wheeler, Sanjeev Bhattacharyya, Joseph Reiken, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Roxy Senior, Mark J Monaghan, and Vishal Sharma
Introduction Stress echocardiography (SE) is a well-established non-invasive technique that is most often used in the assessment of coronary artery disease (CAD). A recent survey by Bhattacharyya et al . highlights important themes that
Timing surgery in mitral regurgitation: defining risk and optimising intervention using stress echocardiography
Boyang Liu, Nicola C Edwards, Simon Ray, and Richard P Steeds
and highlights the importance of exercise stress echocardiography in the management of primary and secondary MR. Video 1 Primary mitral regurgitation with flail A2 scallop of the anterior mitral valve leaflet. View Video 1 at http
Clinician referrals for stress echocardiography: are we compliant with the NICE guidelines?
P A Patel, K A Ravi, D P Ripley, J Kane, E Wass, A Carr, D Wilson, N Watchorn, R K Hobman, D Gill, W P Brooksby, N Kilcullen, and N Artis
such as stress echocardiography (SE), myocardial perfusion scintigraphy or stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging is recommended in those patients with a PTL of 30–60%. For those with a PTL of 10–29%, CT calcium scoring should be performed in
Safety and efficacy of physiologist-led dobutamine stress echocardiography: experience from a tertiary cardiac centre
Theodoros Ntoskas, Farhanda Ahmad, and Paul Woodmansey
Introduction Stress echocardiography (SE) is a well-established, reliable and safe method for assessment of ischaemic heart disease ( 1 ). Furthermore, SE is utilised in patients with valvular heart disease or cardiomyopathies and is also used
The prognostic role of stress echocardiography in a contemporary population and the clinical significance of limited apical ischaemia
Alexandros Papachristidis, Damian Roper, Daniela Cassar Demarco, Ioannis Tsironis, Michael Papitsas, Jonathan Byrne, Khaled Alfakih, and Mark J Monaghan
Introduction Stress echocardiography (SE) is an established and widely used imaging functional test. It is included in most guidelines for the investigation of chest pain ( 1 ). It is also used in the risk stratification of patients with known
