title: The use of stress echocardiography for prognostication in coronary artery disease: an overview.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Stress echocardiography has a high accuracy for the detection of coronary artery disease. Additionally, it provides clinically useful prognostic information, such as resting left ventricular function, myocardial viability, stress-induced ischemia, vascular extent of wall motion abnormalities, and changes in end-systolic volume and ejection fraction with stress.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The timing, extent, and severity of the stress-induced wall motion abnormalities are important determinants of long-term prognosis. Previous studies have shown the efficacy of stress echocardiography in predicting long-term cardiac events in mixed patient groups and the value of this test in selected patient subsets.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This review attempts to define the role of stress echocardiography for prognostication in coronary artery disease, pointing out the ability of this technique to identify low-risk and high-risk subsets among patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease and thus guide patient management decisions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Biagini
authors.forename: Abdou
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Elhendy
authors.forename: Jeroen J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Bax
authors.forename: Arend F L
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Schinkel
authors.forename: Don
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Poldermans
mesh_terms: D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D025401:Echocardiography, Stress / Q000379:methods*; D006321:Heart / Q000502:physiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results