stress echocardiography

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Indications

Clinical significance

Sensitivity for detecting coronary stenosis of 50-70% is:

Procedure

Notes

  • image quality may be suboptimal in some patients but can be improved using microbubble transpulmonary contrast[1]

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References

  1. Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 1.2 Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 11, 17. American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 1998, 2015
  2. Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 2.2 Bouzas-Mosquera A et al Prediction of mortality and major cardiac events by exercise echocardiography in patients with normal exercise electrocardiographic testing. J Am Coll Cardiol 2009 May 26; 53:1981. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19460612
    Flachskampf FA and Rost C. Stress echocardiography in known or suspected coronary artery disease: An exercise in good clinical practice. J Am Coll Cardiol 2009 May 26; 53:1991. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19460613
  3. Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 Geriatric Review Syllabus, 11th edition (GRS11) Harper GM, Lyons WL, Potter JF (eds) American Geriatrics Society, 2022