[Stress echocardiography and mitral stenosis: what interest?].
The stress echocardiography is used extensively as a diagnostic and prognostic tool and the assessment of ischemic cardiopathies. Its use in valvulopathies is more limited, but is increasing with time. The discrepancies between the functional symptoms and hemodynamics at rest is frequently met in patients with mitral stenosis. By assessing changes of pressures, gradients and surface stress echocardiography helps to identify the real hemodynamic conditions permitting to recommend a more aggressive approach in certain situations.
Kraiem
Sondos
S
Service de cardiologie Hôpital Habib Thameur, Tunis.
Annabi
Nizar
N
Longo
Selma
S
Mghaieth
Fathia
F
Battikh
Kais
K
Baraket
Ferial
F
Hmem
Mohamed
M
Slimane
Lotfi Mohamed
LM
D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D002302:Cardiac Output / Q000502:physiology; D025401:Echocardiography, Stress; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011379:Prognosis; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000503:physiopathology; D018570:Risk Assessment