RT Book, Section
A1 Askew, J. Wells
A1 Miller, Todd D.
A2 Heller, Gary V.
A2 Hendel, Robert C.
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ID 1145444848
T1 ECG Exercise Testing
T2 Nuclear Cardiology: Practical Applications, 3e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259644993
LK accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1145444848
RD 2024/04/19
AB Exercise  electrocardiography  testing  has  been  a  valuable  noninvasive  tool  for  many  decades  in  the  evaluation  of  patients  with  suspected  or  known  coronary  artery  disease  (CAD)  and  remains  widely  utilized.  The  primary  goals  of  noninvasive  stress  testing  are  to  aid  in  the  diagnosis  of  obstructive  CAD  and  to  provide  risk  stratification  in  an  attempt  to  estimate  the  probability  of  myocardial  infarction  (MI)  or  death.  Although  cardiac  stress  imaging  can  improve  the  diagnostic  yield  and  enhance  risk  stratification  beyond  exercise  electrocardiogram  (ECG)  variables  alone,  the  standard  exercise  ECG  stress  test  should  play  a  key  role  in  the  evaluation  of  patients  with  suspected  CAD.  The  exercise  ECG  continues  to  be  of  great  value,  especially  as  the  CAD  paradigm  has  shifted  from  an  emphasis  on  diagnosis  to  the  importance  of  risk  stratification.