title: Cardiac stress testing - stress electrocardiography and stress echocardiography.
abstract: Coronary artery disease (CAD) affects over 600,000 Australians and is implicated in approximately one in 5 deaths. Coronary angiography is the gold standard for identifying CAD, although it is invasive and not without risk of complication. Cardiac stress testing is useful in the risk stratification of chest pain; noting that 15–39% of angiograms performed are normal.
authors.affiliation: Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute and Honorary Fellow in Cardiac Electrophysiology, Alfred and Royal Melbourne Hospitals, Victoria. amclella@med.usyd.edu.au
authors.forename: Alex
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: McLellan
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Prior
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D000075202:Contraindications; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D025401:Echocardiography, Stress / Q000191:economics; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005080:Exercise Test; D006801:Humans; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity