Why the study?
Does an increase in end-systolic volume after exercise predict mortality in patients with coronary heart disease?
Does an increase in end-systolic volume after exercise predict mortality in patients with coronary heart disease?
Identification of end-systolic volume reversal during exercise echocardiography provides useful complementary information for risk stratification in patients with coronary heart disease.
May aid risk stratification in CHD exercise echo; hypothesis-generating, needs prospective validation before practice change.
End-systolic volume reversal is a novel parameter that independently predicts mortality in patients with CHD undergoing exercise treadmill echocardiography, even after adjustment for a wide range of clinical, echocardiographic, and treadmill exercise variables. Because measurement of ESV is simple, reproducible, and requires no additional imaging views, identification of ESV reversal during exercise echocardiography can provide useful complementary information for risk stratification.
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Turakhia et al. (2009) studied this question.
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