Acute myocardial infarction following recovery from a normal treadmill exercise test.
Cardiologists today rely on stress testing to provide valuable diagnostic information about their patients. How and why can it cross the line to become a trigger for acute coronary events? Is patient selection important to avoid complications? Follow this patient through his stress test.
Passalaris
J
J
Weill Medical College of Cornell University and the New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA.
Szulc
M
M
Dubowsky
J
J
Hachamovitch
R
R
D004562:Electrocardiography; D005080:Exercise Test / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000209:etiology*; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon