title: [Guidelines of the Spanish Society of Cardiology for clinical practice in exercise testing].
abstract: Most exercise testing is performed in adults with known or suspected ischemic heart disease. In the last few years cardiac imaging techniques have been applied in this field, improving the information obtained with the procedure. However, the exceptions to this rule are emerging rapidly not only in healthy people (asymptomatic individuals, athletes, handicapped people) but also in cardiac patients (advanced congestive heart failure, hypertension, rhythm disorders, congenital heart disease, etc.). All the-se issues justify the need for a multidisciplinary consensus document in Spain. This paper reviews and updates the methodological aspects of the stress test, including those related to oxygen consumption measurements. The main aim of this review was to determine the role of exercise testing in the evaluation of ischemic heart disease as well as the applications of imaging stress testing. The usefulness of this test in other non-ischemic cardiac disorders and in selected subsets of healthy people is also reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Sociedad Española de Cardiología.
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mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005080:Exercise Test / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012955:Societies, Medical; D013030:Spain