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Exercise stress echocardiography: Where are we now?
Cotrim, Carlos Alberto; Café, Hugo; João, Isabel; Cotrim, Nuno; Guardado, Jorge; Cotrim, Hortense; Cordeiro, Pedro; Baquero, LuisExercise stress echocardiography (ESE) is a widely used diagnostic test in cardiology departments. ESE is mainly used to study patients with coronary artery disease; however, it has increasingly been used in other clinical scenarios including valve pathology, congenital heart disease, hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies, athlete evaluations, diastolic function evaluation, and pulmonary circulation study. ...
TRICUSPID PROSTHESIS MALFUNCTION UNMASKED BY EXERCISE STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
Cotrim, Carlos; Costa, Francisco; Baquero, LuisExercise echocardiography is used mainly in the study of patients with coronary artery disease, however the technique is increasingly used in the study of other pathologies. We present the first case of use of exercise stress echocardiography for clinical decision in one patient with biological prostheses in tricuspid position. The clinical exam, the echocardiogram, the cardiac MRI, the NT proBNP were normal an...