Relationship between exercise echocardiography and perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography in patients with single-vessel coronary artery disease

Noninvasive evaluation of ischaemic heart disease: myocardial perfusion imaging or stress echocardiography?

“…[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] This systematic review focuses on direct comparative studies on stress echocardiography and perfusion imaging in order to provide the most objective information. Nevertheless, a potential risk of pooling data from different studies is to mix patients with different clinical characteristics and risk profile.…”

MR‐compatible treadmill for exercise stress cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

“…The American Heart Association (AHA) has recommended that cardiac stress echocardiography be completed within 60 s to 120 s of peak stress, with 60 s being the preferred target (9). While no equivalent guideline exists for stress CMR, the basis of the echo guideline is that exercise induced wall motion abnormalities (WMA) generated under stress conditions begin to diminish immediately following cessation of exercise (10-14). Previous work has demonstrated the feasibility of detecting coronary artery stenoses by exercise stress cardiac MRI using a treadmill positioned just outside the MRI room (15).…”

Diastolic stress echocardiography detects coronary artery disease in patients with asymptomatic type II diabetes

“…SPECT was performed by use of a large-field-of-view, single-crystal, rotating gamma camera (ADAC, ARC 3000-3300) [25]. Acquisition of stress imaging began soon after the isotope was injected, within 10 to 20 min [26].…”