Stress testing in valvular heart disease: Clinical benefit of echocardiographic imaging

Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 81-92

  Roşca, Monica ^a,b   Lancellotti, Patrizio ^a   Magne, Julien ^a   Piérard, Luc A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

exercise stress testing; prognosis; stress echocardiography; valvular heart disease

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; EXERCISE TEST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 78650367860     PISSN: 14779072     EISSN: 17448344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erc.10.173     Document Type: Review

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