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Stress echocardiography and coronary artery sonography 

Stress echocardiography and coronary artery sonography
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Stress echocardiography and coronary artery sonography
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10.1093/med/9780198804161.003.0010
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date: 21 May 2022

This chapter deals with stress echocardiography and coronary artery sonography. It covers indications, contraindications, detection of ischaemia, equipment and personnel, performance of the study, monitoring and termination criteria, analysis and reporting, exercise stress protocols, dobutamine stress protocol, pacing stress protocol, viability assessment, dobutamine stress for viability, perfusion assessment, vasodilator stress, preoperative assessment for non-cardiac surgery, coronary artery sonography, coronary artery flow profiles, coronary artery disease, coronary flow velocity reserve (CFR), stress for valvular disease, exercise stress for mitral valve, stress for aortic stenosis, stress for prosthetic aortic and mitral valves, and stress in non-ischaemic heart disease

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