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20932111

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-10-11
pubmed:abstractText
This article is a review on the role of stress echocardiography in valvular heart diseases, describing what the validated indications are, how to perform the test and the utility of performing this examination. Most valve diseases are characteristically dynamic and this dynamic component is best appreciated by exercise Doppler echocardiography. Dobutamine stress echocardiography is also useful in patients with severe aortic stenosis and left ventricular dysfunction. The main advantage of stress echocardiography is to concomitantly allow the evaluation of symptoms, exercise capacity and the hemodynamic consequences of valve diseases, especially in patients with severe valve diseases who deny symptoms or present equivocal symptoms. It also provides important prognostic information and may help to optimize surgical timing in difficult cases. Whether these data should be integrated in the management of patients needs further validation.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1744-8298
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
6
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
611-25
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Stress Doppler echocardiography in valvular heart diseases: utility and assessment.
pubmed:affiliation
University of Liège, Department of Cardiology, CHU Sart Tilman, Liège, 4000, Belgium.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article