Echocardiography during treadmill exercise testing in a patient with mitral stenosis.
Treadmill exercise echocardiography with Doppler during effort has been used for several years in our department. This form of echocardiography is used mainly in evaluation of patients with coronary heart disease and it is being increasingly used in valvular heart disease. We report the case of a 49-year-old woman with moderate mitral stenosis, in which stress echocardiography was important in making correct clinical decisions.
Almeida
Ana Rita
AR
Serviço de Cardiologia do Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal.
Cotrim
Carlos
C
Miranda
Rita
R
Almeida
Sofia
S
Lopes
Luís
L
Loureiro
Maria J
MJ
Simões
Otília
O
Cordeiro
Pedro
P
Fazendas
Paula
P
João
Isabel
I
Carrageta
Manuel
M
D025401:Echocardiography, Stress; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*