Stress echocardiography
Definition
Stress echocardiography is a test that uses ultrasound imaging to determine how the heart muscles respond to stress. It is mainly used to diagnose and evaluate coronary artery disease.
Stress echocardiography
Alternate Names : Echocardiography stress test, Stress test - echocardiography
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Stress Echocardiography
Stress echo is done as part of a stress test. During a stress test, you exercise or take medicine (given by your doctor) to make your heart work hard and beat fast.
Stress echocardiography: TTE is an alternative to radionuclide imaging to identify myocardial ischemia during and after exercise or pharmacologic stress.
Stress echocardiography
Thallium stress test
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Stress echocardiography is very useful in enhancing the interpretation of the routine exercise cardiac stress test (ECST).
Stress echocardiography combines echocardiography (ultrasound imaging of the heart muscle) with exercise stress testing. It is also an accurate technique for detecting CAD.
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ECP
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dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE)
This procedure is done as a substitute for an exercise echo, because some people may be unable to exercise on a treadmill or stationary bicycle due to conditions such as: ...
Dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE). Dobutamine is a medication given by IV that stimulates the heart and mimics the effects of exercise causing it to beat faster and stronger.
(DSE, Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography, Dobutamine Stress Echo)
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Dobutamine stress echocardiography in preoperative and long-term postoperative risk assessment of elderly patients. Am J Geriatr Cardiol. 2003;12:107-109, 112.
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During stress echocardiography, the sound waves of ultrasound are used to produce images of the heart at rest and at the peak of exercise.
stress echocardiography, which uses ultrasound and heart rate monitoring to assess your child’s heart function just before and just after exercise, or during the administration of a drug that mimics the effects of exercise on the heart ...
An EKG usually is done whenever a heart-related problem is suspected. If the medical history and physical exam indicate that coronary artery disease is present, other tests, such as the stress echocardiography or stress thallium test, may be used.
Has individual had complete blood lipid testing, ECG both at rest and during exercise?
Was radionuclide stress test done? Stress echocardiography? Coronary angiogram?
Were conditions with similar symptoms ruled out?
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Stress Echocardiography
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De Wolf D, Suys B, Matthys D: Stress echocardiography in the evaluation of late cardiac toxicity after moderate dose of antyracycline therapy in childhood. International Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 1: 399-404, 1994.
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 See also: Stress, Coronary Artery Disease, Symptom, Chest pain, Heart Disease
  
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