Stress ECHO Beyond Coronary Artery Disease. Is It the Holy Grail of Cardiovascular Imaging?

Overview

Journal Clin Cardiol

Specialty Cardiology & Vascular Diseases

Date 2018 Oct 14

PMID 30315566

Citations 3

Authors

Constantina Aggeli

Kali Polytarchou

Dimitrios Varvarousis

Stellios Kastellanos

Dimitrios Tousoulis

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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.

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