title: Interpretation of left ventricular wall motion during stress testing.
abstract: This article describes the obstacles to stress echocardiographic interpretation, and reviews the techniques currently available that offer a more objective approach to stress wall motion analysis than the conventional visual methodology. These techniques include Doppler-based methods, such as myocardial Doppler velocity and strain rate imaging, as well as automated border detection techniques, such as acoustic quantification and color kinesis.
authors.affiliation: Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging Laboratories, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA. jdecara@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
authors.forename: Jeanne M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: DeCara
authors.forename: Roberto M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Lang
mesh_terms: D003287:Contrast Media; D004280:Dobutamine; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D025401:Echocardiography, Stress; D006801:Humans; D009200:Myocardial Contraction; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media; D004280:Dobutamine