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Stress Echocardiography using Exercise-Simulating Techniques

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Stress Echocardiography

Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 149))

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Abstract

The choice of techniques for inducing ischemia at stress echocardiography corresponds to that for the scintigraphic methods, and involves a fundamental distinction between exercise and non-exercise approaches. The latter include exercise-simulating methods (including sympathomimetic and pacing stresses), which increase myocardial oxygen demand, and vasoactive agents (principally dipyridamole and ergonovine stresses), which primarily influence myocardial blood supply. This chapter will examine the exercise-simulating techniques, and explore whether their use is justifiable in preference to exercise stress. The following chapter will deal with the vasoactive stress agents.

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Marwick, T. (1994). Stress Echocardiography using Exercise-Simulating Techniques. In: Stress Echocardiography. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 149. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0782-2_4

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