The Role of Stress Echocardiography in Valvular Heart Disease: A Current Appraisal
Population
Patients with native and prosthetic left-sided valvular heart disease
Design
Review
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
Stress echocardiography is a versatile and valuable imaging modality for assessing severity, guiding surgical timing, and risk-stratifying patients with left-sided valvular heart disease.
Structured PICO
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Population
Patients with native and prosthetic left-sided valvular heart disease
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Intervention
Stress echocardiography (exercise or pharmacological with dobutamine)
Stress echocardiography is a versatile and valuable imaging modality for assessing severity, guiding surgical timing, and risk-stratifying patients with left-sided valvular heart disease.
Cite This Study
Gentry et al. (2017) studied this question.