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. 2002 Mar;10(3):145–149.

Stress echocardiography: methods, indications and results

LHB Baur
PMCID: PMC2499692  PMID: 25696080

Abstract

Stress echocardiography has become an important clinical tool to detect cardiac ischaemia and viability in addition to single photon emission tomography. Stress echocardiography has a high positive and negative predictive value, is less expensive than the nuclear methods and has no radiation exposure. It can easily be used in an emergency room and coronary care unit. Because of its feasibility, low cost and high diagnostic accuracy, it will become a very important technique in every hospital and will soon be a real alternative to the more time-consuming and expensive nuclear techniques. The current article gives a review of the methods of stress echocardiography.

Keywords: stress echocardiography

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