Echocardiography is useful to evaluate ventricular function and detect ischemia induced regional wall motion abnormality that occurs at rest, during exercise or with pharmacologic stress test. As a testing modality, two-dimensional echocardiography is often coupled with other testing modalities to detect regional wall motion abnormalities that most frequently occur during induced myocardial ischemia associated with coronary artery disease (CAD). Potential paired testing modalities include: upright treadmill exercise, supine bicycle ergometry, pacing, and pharmacologic stress, particularly with dobutamine. Patients with CAD may respond more adversely to testing modalities than their counterparts. Often, an adverse outcome such as the inability to perform a bicycle ergometry test or exercise treadmill protocol can be characterized as a poor prognostic factor.
Chronic stable angina echocardiography
Chronic stable angina electron beam tomography
Chronic stable angina cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
Chronic stable angina coronary angiography
Chronic stable angina exercise echocardiography
Chronic stable angina electrocardiography
Coronary angiography left coronary artery
Chronic stable angina physical examination