title: Clinical value of exercise Doppler echocardiography in patients with cardiac-valvular disease.
abstract: Besides its usefulness for the detection of exercise-induced ischemia, conventional exercise testing may help to predict the onset of clinical events and the need for surgery in asymptomatic patients with cardiac-valvular disease. Doppler echocardiography examination during exercise recently emerged as a new stress testing modality that may add useful information regarding dynamism of LV function, valve disease severity and pulmonary circulation. Few studies have demonstrated a correlation between the results of exercise Doppler echocardiography and clinical outcome. Preliminary experience needs to be confirmed to warrant routine use of Doppler echocardiography examination during exercise in the evaluation of patients with cardiac-valve disease.
authors.affiliation: Département de physiologie, centre hospitalier régional et universitaire de Lille, 59019 Lille, France.
authors.forename: Sylvestre
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Maréchaux
authors.forename: Annaïk
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bellouin
authors.forename: Anne Sophie
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Polge
authors.forename: Marjorie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Richardson-Lobbedez
authors.forename: Rémi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lubret
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Asseman
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Berrebi
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chauvel
authors.forename: Jean Louis
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Vanoverschelde
authors.forename: Rémi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nevière
authors.forename: Brigitte
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jude
authors.forename: Ghislaine
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Deklunder
authors.forename: Thierry H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Le Jemtel
authors.forename: Pierre Vladimir
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: Ennezat
mesh_terms: D001022:Aortic Valve Insufficiency / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler / Q000379:methods*; D005080:Exercise Test; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000401:mortality* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000401:mortality* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology; D009200:Myocardial Contraction / Q000502:physiology; D013318:Stroke Volume; D018754:Ventricular Dysfunction / Q000453:epidemiology