title: Acute myocardial infarction following recovery from a normal treadmill exercise test.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Weill Medical College of Cornell University and the New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Passalaris
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Szulc
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dubowsky
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hachamovitch
mesh_terms: 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