Stress Echocardiography

- Preface

1: Performance of stress echocardiography

- Practical aspects of image acquisition and stress testing

- Equipment for stress echocardiography

- Acquisition of stress echocardiograms

- Stress echocardiography protocols - an overview

- Exercise echocardiography

- Exercise simulating agents

- Vasodilator stressors

- Ergonovine stress testing

- Pacing stress

- Choice of exercise vs non-exercise stress

2: Interpretation of stress echocardiography

- Qualitative and emerging quantitative approaches

- Qualitative interpretation

- Semi-quantitative interpretation

- Quantitative analysis

- Conclusion

3: Accuracy of stress echocardiography

- Comparison with coronary stenoses

- Methodologic influences on the measurement of accuracy

- Clinical influences on the accuracy of stress echocardiography

- Accuracy of exercise echocardiography

- Accuracy of dobutamine stress echocardiography

- Accuracy of vasodilator stress echocardiography

- Accuracy of pacing stress echocardiography

- Causes of discordance between stress echocardiography and angiography

- Evaluation of the site and extent of coronary artery disease

- Selection of the appropriate stress protocol

- Conclusions

4: Comparison of stress echo with standard stress testing

- Is the exercise ECG obsolete? Introduction

- Test selection in active patients with interpretable electrocardiogram

- Use of stress echo in subgroups where the stress ECG is unreliable

- Pharmacologic stress echo vs stress ECG in patients unable to exercise

- Implications

- Should a stress echo be used as the diagnostic test of choice in all patients with suspected coronary disease?

5: Comparison of stress echocardiography and other stress-imaging techniques for the diagnosis of coronary heart disease

- Is there a "test of choice"? Current status of other stress-imaging approaches for the diagnosis of coronary heart disease

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