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What are the clinical applications of stress echocardiography in conditions beyond coronary artery disease?
What are the clinical applications of stress echocardiography in conditions beyond coronary artery disease?
Stress echocardiography is a versatile and valuable tool for evaluating functional status and hemodynamics in a wide spectrum of non-CAD cardiovascular diseases.
May support broader stress echocardiography use in valvular disease and cardiomyopathies; leaves open need for prospective validation.
Stress echocardiography (SE) is a very useful method in clinical practice, because it offers important information of both the patient's functional status and hemodynamic changes during stress. Therefore, SE provides strong diagnostic and prognostic data in a wide spectrum of cardiovascular diseases. This review summarizes the clinical applications of SE in conditions beyond coronary artery disease (CAD) and highlights practical recommendations and key issues for each condition that need further investigation. SE is an established method for the evaluation of symptomatic and asymptomatic patients with valvular heart disease (VHD) and cardiomyopathies, and provides important information regarding prognosis and management of patients with congenital heart disease, pulmonary hypertension or diastolic dysfunction. Moreover, when one or multiple VHD and cardiomyopathy or CAD coexist in one patient, SE is a very useful clinical tool for the evaluation of etiology and symptomatology.
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