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.
Serviço de Cardiologia do Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal.
Ana Rita
AR
Almeida
Carlos
C
Cotrim
Rita
R
Miranda
Sofia
S
Almeida
Luís
L
Lopes
Maria J
MJ
Loureiro
Otília
O
Simões
Pedro
P
Cordeiro
Paula
P
Fazendas
Isabel
I
João
Manuel
M
Carrageta
D025401:Echocardiography, Stress; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*