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Stress Echocardiography

Ateet Kosaraju  1 , Vijayadershan Muppidi  2 , Amgad N. Makaryus  3
In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2025 Jan.
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Stress Echocardiography

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Excerpt

Stress echocardiography combines two-dimensional echocardiography with a physical, pharmacological, or less commonly, electrical stress with atrial pacing. Stress-induced ischemia generates new or worsening wall motion abnormalities in the segment supplied by the stenosed coronary artery. Stress echocardiography plays an important role in identifying these wall motion abnormalities in the assessment of ischemic heart disease, and also plays a vital role in the evaluation of systolic or diastolic heart failure, valvular pathologies, nonischemic cardiomyopathy, pulmonary hypertension, and congenital heart disease.

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Conflict of interest statement

Disclosure: Ateet Kosaraju declares no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

Disclosure: Vijayadershan Muppidi declares no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

Disclosure: Amgad Makaryus declares no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

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