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Stress Echocardiography

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Resting left ventricular function, myocardial viability and stress-induced ischemia showed their prognostic impact in the pre-echocardiographic era, when evaluated by different tools, i.e., radioisotopic techniques for ventricular function [2], fluo-rodeoxyglucose uptake for viability [3], and exercise electrocardiography [4] and myocardial scintigraphy [5] for inducible ischemia. Only echocardiography allowed all these pieces of information — previously scattered among several diagnostic techniques — to be put together in a synoptic way.

Identification of patients with known ischemic heart disease who are at low risk is imp or tanty first, because it is reassuring for the patient; second, because in such a group the prognostic accuracy of any diagnostic test becomes very low; third, because it is difficult to demonstrate that even the most aggressive treatments can increase life expectancy when the latter is not reduced appreciably A. Maseri [1]

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  1. Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council, Via Moruzzi, 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Eugenio Picano MD, PhD, FESC (Senior Medical Researcher of Italian National Research Council, Director, Echocardiography and Stress Testing Lab Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Scientific Director Cardiology, Clinica Cardiologica Montevergine, Mercogliano, Avellino, Editor-in-Chief Biomed Central Netjournal Cardiovascular Ultrasound)

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Picano, E. (2003). Prognosis. In: Stress Echocardiography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05096-5_21

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