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Stress Testing (Treadmill, Echocardiography, SPECT, PET, and Cardiac MR)

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Noninvasive imaging plays an important role in modern-day medicine from diagnosis to management of disease. It is crucial to have a solid understanding of the various indications and limitations of these techniques to be able to best utilize the different modalities in risk assessment and clinical decision-making. Through this chapter we will cover the fundamentals of the different imaging modalities and how to select the most appropriate modality based on the disease being investigated and individual patient characteristics. Foundational knowledge of these different stress imaging modalities allows for a multimodality approach for comprehensive patient assessment.

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Abbreviations

ABI:

Ankle–brachial pressure index

ARVC:

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy

AVB:

Atrioventricular block

CAD:

Coronary artery disease

DTS:

Duke Treadmill Prognostic Score

ECG:

Electrocardiogram

EGE:

Early gadolinium enhancement

EIBBB:

Exercise induced bundle branch block

EMB:

Endomyocardial biopsy

HR:

Heart rate

HRR:

Heart rate recovery

LBBB:

Left bundle branch block

LGE:

Late gadolinium enhancement

LVEF:

Left ventricular ejection fraction

LVH:

Left ventricular hypertrophy

MET:

Metabolic equivalent of task

MI:

Myocardial infarction

PAD:

Peripheral arterial disease

Qp/Qs:

Pulmonary-to-systemic shunt ratio

RV:

Right ventricular

SBP:

Systolic blood pressure

SE:

Stress echocardiography

SSFP:

Steady-state free precession

V-paced:

Ventricular paced rhythm

WMA:

Wall motion abnormality

WPW:

Wolf Parkinson White syndrome

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  1. Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Talal Khalid Al-Otaibi & Thomas H. Hauser

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  1. Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ankit A. Bhargava

  2. Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Bryan J. Wells

  3. Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Pablo A. Quintero

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Al-Otaibi, T.K., Hauser, T.H. (2022). Stress Testing (Treadmill, Echocardiography, SPECT, PET, and Cardiac MR). In: Bhargava, A.A., Wells, B.J., Quintero, P.A. (eds) Handbook of Outpatient Cardiology . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88953-1_7

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