Transoesophageal stress echocardiography.
Transoesophageal echocardiography has been performed in conjunction with pacing, dobutamine, or dipyridamole stress to detect stress-inducible ischaemia, and has proved to be a highly accurate diagnostic tool. Its advantages of improved image quality and high diagnostic accuracy have to be weighed against the disadvantages of semi-invasiveness and patient discomfort. The existing data on this stress echo modality and on special applications (diastolic dysfunction, ischaemic mitral regurgitation, hibernating myocardium, peri-operative risk assessment) are reviewed.
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Med. Klinik I, RWTH Aachen, Germany.
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D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal / Q000379:methods*; D005080:Exercise Test / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity