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Pacing stress echocardiography

Cardiovascular Ultrasound, 2005
Background High-rate pacing is a valid stress test to be used in conjunction with echocardiography; it is independent of physical exercise and does not require drug administration.
Agrusta Marco, Gligorova Suzana
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Stress Echocardiography [PDF]

Heart, 2003
Stress echocardiography may be performed with exercise and nonexercise stressors, although the use of echo contrast agents makes insertion of an intravenous line important for both techniques. The selection of either stress protocol should be tailored to each patient, and in the opinion of this author, an effective stress echo laboratory should offer ...
Khoury, Vincent, Marwick, Thomas H.
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Dobutamine stress echocardiography: a review and update

Research Reports in Clinical Cardiology, 2014
Lauren Gray Gilstrap,1 R Sacha Bhatia,2 Rory B Weiner,3 David M Dudzinski3 1Division of Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; 2Institute for Health Systems Solutions, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; 3Cardiology
Gilstrap LG, Bhatia RS, Weiner RB, Dudzinski DM   +3 more
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Stress echocardiography in valvular heart disease

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023
Valvular heart disease (VHD) has been a significant health problem, particularly in developed countries, in relation to the aging population. Recent developments in the management of VHD require a more accurate assessment of disease severity to determine
Kensuke Hirasawa, Masaki Izumo, Yoshihiro J. Akashi   +2 more
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Contemporary review of stress echocardiography workforce within the UK: an EVAREST/BSE NSTEP study [PDF]

Echo Research and Practice
Background Stress echocardiography is a key imaging modality for assessing coronary artery disease in the UK. Traditionally, stress echo services were led by consultant cardiologists, but evolving workforce models have increased the involvement of ...
James Willis, Casey L. Johnson, Samuel Krasner, William Woodward, Annabelle McCourt, Cameron Dockerill, Katrin Balkhausen, Badrinathan Chandrasekaran, Attila Kardos, Nikant Sabharwal, Soroosh Firoozan, Rizwan Sarwar, Roxy Senior, Rajan Sharma, Kenneth Wong, Maria Paton, Jamie O’Driscoll, David Oxborough, Keith Pearce, Shaun Robinson, Adora Mo Wah Yau, Daniel X. Augustine, Paul Leeson, the EVAREST/BSE-NSTEP Investigators   +23 more
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Prognostic relevance of a false-positive stress echocardiography response: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

Open Heart
Background Stress echocardiography is a widely available and used imaging modality in the assessment of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) and preoperative risk stratification.
Maria F Paton, John Gierula, Paul Leeson, Sadie Bennett, Prenali Dwisthi Sattwika, Jacopo Tafuro, Casey L Johnson, Mathew Stone   +7 more
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The effect of heat stress, dehydration and exercise on global left ventricular function and mechanics in healthy humans [PDF]

, 2010
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This thesis examined the effect of heat stress, dehydration and exercise on global left ventricular (LV) function and LV twist, untwisting and strain (LV ...
Stöhr, Eric J
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Myocardial work index during normal dobutamine stress echocardiography

Scientific Reports, 2022
Dobutamine stress echocardiography is an alternative method to exercise stress echocardiography for the evaluation of ischemia. Recently, the novel speckle tracking imaging derived parameter, myocardial work index, was suggested for the evaluation of ...
Marina Leitman, Yoni Balboul, Oleg Burgsdorf, Vladimir Tyomkin, Shmuel Fuchs   +4 more
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Stress Echocardiography Audit: Experience of a Tertiary Care Center

Journal of the Indian Academy of Echocardiography & Cardiovascular Imaging, 2021
Background: Stress echocardiography is a very useful diagnostic and prognostic test in the evaluation of significant coronary artery disease (CAD) causing inducible myocardial ischemia.
Harin Kamleshbhai Vyas, Mitul Abhaykumar Shah, Neha Vijay More   +2 more
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Predictive significance of residual ischemia proved by dobutamine stress: Echocardiography test in patients early after the first uncomplicated myocardial infarction [PDF]

Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2004
Background. To evaluate the long-term prognostic value of dobutamine stress-echocardiography (ECG) test for new coronary events (new episodes of angina pectoris, cardiac-related deaths, and reinfarctions) early after the first uncomplicated myocardial ...
Karanović Nevena, Todorović Lazar, Perišić Zoran, Pavlović Milan   +3 more
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