Key result
Transoesophageal stress echocardiography accurately detects stress-inducible ischaemia despite semi-invasiveness and discomfort.
Why the study?
The advantages of improved image quality and high diagnostic accuracy with transoesophageal stress echocardiography must be weighed against semi-invasiveness and patient discomfort.
What is the diagnostic utility and role of transoesophageal stress echocardiography in clinical practice?
What is the diagnostic utility and role of transoesophageal stress echocardiography in clinical practice?
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Transoesophageal stress echocardiography provides high diagnostic accuracy and improved image quality for detecting ischaemia, though limited by its semi-invasive nature.
Transoesophageal echocardiography has been performed in conjunction with pacing, dobutamine, or dipyridamole stress to detect stress-inducible ischaemia, and has proved to be a highly accurate diagnostic tool. Its advantages of improved image quality and high diagnostic accuracy have to be weighed against the disadvantages of semi-invasiveness and patient discomfort. The existing data on this stress echo modality and on special applications (diastolic dysfunction, ischaemic mitral regurgitation, hibernating myocardium, peri-operative risk assessment) are reviewed.
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Flachskampf et al. (1997) conducted a review in Stress-inducible ischaemia. Transoesophageal stress echocardiography was evaluated. Transoesophageal stress echocardiography is a highly accurate diagnostic tool for detecting stress-inducible ischaemia, though its benefits must be weighed against semi-invasiveness and discomfort.
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