Stress echocardiography: Technical considerations

Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 303-314

  Crouse, Linda J ^a   Kramer, Paul H ^a  

^a ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIPYRIDAMOLE;

BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EXERCISE TEST; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VALVE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; REVIEW; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

EID: 0035131740     PISSN: 00330620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/pcad.2001.20469     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Complementary value of two-dimensional exercise echocardiography to routine treadmill exercise testing
2. The ischemic cascade: Temporal sequence of hemodynamic, electrocardiographic and symptomatic expression of ischemia
3. Limitation of myocardial ischemia by collateral circulation during sudden controlled coronary artery occlusion in human subjects
4. Supine bicycle stress echocardiography versus tomographic Thalliurn- 201 exercise imaging for the detection of coronary artery disease
5. Exercise echocardiography as a screening test for coronary artery disease and correlation with coronary arteriography
6. Assessment of severity of coronary narrowings by quantitative exercise echocardiography and comparison with quantitative arteriography
7. Use of exercise echocardiography for prognostic evaluation of patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease
8. Accuracy and limitations of exercise echocardiography in a routine clinical setting
9. Exercise echocardiography after coronary artery bypass grafting
10. Exercise echocardiography as a follow-up in percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty
11. Identification of multivessel coronary artery disease by exercise echocardiography
12. Stress echocardiography: Introduction, history, and methods
13. Effect of prior myocardial infarction and extent and location of coronary disease on accuracy of exercise echocardiography
14. The effects of successful PTCA on left ventricular function, assessment by exercise echo
15. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines
16. Exercise echocardiography: Detection of coronary artery disease in patients with normal left ventricular wall motion at rest
17. Dobutamine digital echocardiography for detecting coronary artery disease
18. Accuracy of dobutamine stress echocardiography in detecting coronary artery disease
19. Improved cardiac risk stratification in major vascular surgery with dobutamine-atropine stress echocardiography
20. Hypotension during dobutamine stress echocardiography: Initial description and clinical relevance
21. Central and peripheral adrenergic receptor agonists in heart failure
22. Safety of dobutamine stress echocardiography in patients with left ventricular apical thrombus
23. Dobutamine stress echocardiography predicts surgical outcome in patients with an aortic aneurysm and peripheral vascular disease
24. Usefulness of dobutamine echocardiography in distinguishing severe from nonsevere valvular aortic stenosis in patients with depressed left ventricular function and low transvalvular gradients
25. Atropine augmentation in dobutamine stress echocardiography: Role and incremental value in a clinical practice setting
26. Methodology, feasibility, safety and diagnostic accuracy of dobutamine stress echocardiography
27. Atropine increases the accuracy of dobutamine stress echocardiography in patients taking β-blockers
28. Non-exercise stress transthoracic echocardiography transesophageal atrial pacing versus dobutamine stress
29. Detection of coronary artery disease by digital stress echocardiography: Comparison of exercise, transesophageal, atrial pacing, and dipyridamole echocardiography
30. Coronary circulation and factors affecting coronary "steal."
31. Dose and test for dipyridamole infusion and cardiac imaging early after uncomplicated acute myocardial infarction
32. Results of dipyridamole plus atropine echo stress test for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease
33. Protective effects of β-blockade on dipyridamole-induced myocardial ischemia. Role of heart rate
34. Enhanced sensitivity for detection of coronary artery disease by addition of atropine to dipyridamole echocardiography
35. The atropine factor in pharmacological stress echocardiography
36. Safety of intravenous high-dose dipyridamole echocardiography
37. Dipyridamole-echocardiography test: The historical background and the physiologic basis
38. Intravenous albumex during dobutamine stress echocardiography: Enhanced localization of left ventricular endocardial borders
39. Improved left ventricular endocardial border delineation and opacification with OPTISON (FSO69), a new echocardiographic contrast agent. Results of a phase II multicenter trial