May 29, 2001Circulation212 citationsOpen Access
View Full PaperPrediction of Mortality by Exercise Echocardiography
Structured PICO
Does exercise echocardiography predict mortality in patients with intermediate-risk Duke treadmill scores?
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Population
Patients undergoing exercise echocardiography, particularly those with intermediate-risk Duke treadmill scores
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Intervention
Exercise echocardiography
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Outcome
Mortality (death)hard clinical
Exercise echocardiography provides independent and incremental prognostic value for mortality, especially in patients with intermediate-risk Duke treadmill scores.
Abstract
A normal exercise echocardiogram confers a low risk of death, and positive results are an independent predictor of death; ischemia is incremental to other data. This test may be particularly useful in patients with intermediate-risk Duke treadmill scores.