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Clin Cardiol. 2018 Dec;41(12):1600-1610. doi: 10.1002/clc.23094. Epub 2018 Nov 24.

Stress ECHO beyond coronary artery disease. Is it the holy grail of cardiovascular imaging?.

Clinical cardiology

Constantina Aggeli, Kali Polytarchou, Dimitrios Varvarousis, Stellios Kastellanos, Dimitrios Tousoulis

Affiliations

  1. 1st Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Athens, Greece.
  2. 1st Department of Cardiology, Evagelismos General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece.
  3. 2nd Department of Cardiology, General Hospital of Nikea-Piraeus "Agios Panteleimon", Piraeus, Greece.

PMID: 30315566 PMCID: PMC6489791 DOI: 10.1002/clc.23094

Abstract

Stress echocardiography (SE) is a very useful method in clinical practice, because it offers important information of both the patient's functional status and hemodynamic changes during stress. Therefore, SE provides strong diagnostic and prognostic data in a wide spectrum of cardiovascular diseases. This review summarizes the clinical applications of SE in conditions beyond coronary artery disease (CAD) and highlights practical recommendations and key issues for each condition that need further investigation. SE is an established method for the evaluation of symptomatic and asymptomatic patients with valvular heart disease (VHD) and cardiomyopathies, and provides important information regarding prognosis and management of patients with congenital heart disease, pulmonary hypertension or diastolic dysfunction. Moreover, when one or multiple VHD and cardiomyopathy or CAD coexist in one patient, SE is a very useful clinical tool for the evaluation of etiology and symptomatology.

© 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Keywords: cardiomyopathy; heart failure; mitral stenosis; pulmonary hypertension; stress echocardiography; valvular heart disease

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