title: [Stress echocardiography and mitral stenosis: what interest?].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Service de cardiologie Hôpital Habib Thameur, Tunis.
authors.forename: Sondos
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kraiem
authors.forename: Nizar
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Annabi
authors.forename: Selma
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Longo
authors.forename: Fathia
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mghaieth
authors.forename: Kais
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Battikh
authors.forename: Ferial
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Baraket
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hmem
authors.forename: Lotfi Mohamed
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Slimane
mesh_terms: 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