USE OF EXERCISE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY TO EVALUATE PATIENTS AFTER CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY

Authors
CROUSE LJ VACEK JL BEAUCHAMP GD KRAMER PH
Citation
Lj. Crouse et al., USE OF EXERCISE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY TO EVALUATE PATIENTS AFTER CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY, The American journal of cardiology, 78(10), 1996, pp. 1163
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
The American journal of cardiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029149
Volume
78
Issue
10
Year of publication
1996
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9149(1996)78:10<1163:UOEETE>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
Exercise echocardiography is a sensitive, specific, and highly accurat e method for detecting coronary restenosis and progressive compromise of untreated arterial segments in patients who have undergone percutan eous transluminal coronary angioplasty. It is far more reliable in pre dicting the status of the coronary anatomy in such patients than exerc ise electrocardiography or symptomatic status.