title: Prognostic value of exercise echocardiography in patients after coronary artery bypass surgery.
abstract: To assess the prognostic value of exercise echocardiography in patients with prior coronary artery bypass surgery, follow-up was obtained in 718 patients (591 men [82%] and 127 women [18%], aged 67 +/- 9 years) who underwent clinically indicated exercise echocardiography 5.7 +/- 4.7 years after coronary bypass surgery. Resting wall motion abnormalities were present in 479 patients (67%). New or worsening wall motion abnormalities developed with exercise in 366 patients (51%). During a median follow-up of 2.9 years, cardiac events included cardiac death in 36 patients and nonfatal myocardial infarction in 40 patients. The addition of the exercise echocardiographic variables, abnormal left ventricular end-systolic volume response and exercise ejection fraction to the clinical, resting echocardiographic and exercise electrocardiographic model provided incremental information in predicting cardiac events (chi-square 37 to chi-square 42, p = 0.02) and cardiac death (chi-square 38 to chi-square 43, p <0.02). Exercise echocardiography provides prognostic information in patients after coronary artery bypass surgery, incremental to clinical, rest echocardiographic, and exercise electrocardiographic variables.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Arruda
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: McCully
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Oh
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Mahoney
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Seward
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Pellikka
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D004452:Echocardiography; D005080:Exercise Test; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015588:Observer Variation; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011379:Prognosis; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D012307:Risk Factors; D016019:Survival Analysis