Exercise testing : new concepts for the new century /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ellestad, Myrvin H., 1921-, Amsterdam, Ezra A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Kluwer Academic, [2002]
Series:Developments in cardiovascular medicine ; v. 235.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The pathophysiology of exercise induced ischemia
  • Does the angiogram still qualify as the gold standard for evaluation of noninvasive tests?
  • Statistical lessons learned from exercise testing research and scores
  • Heart rate adjustment of exercise ST segment depression : the ST/HR index
  • Chronotropic incompetence and heart rate recovery
  • ST-heart rate-recovery loops and right precordial leads in exercise electrocardiography
  • Exercise electrocardiography in women with suspected coronary disease
  • Exercise electrocardiography in the asymptomatic patient
  • Exercise testing of low risk patients presenting with acute chest pain : rationale, methods, results
  • Premature contractions - can they reflect ischemia?
  • Exercise testing in the congenital long QT syndrome
  • Unconventional markers of exercise induced ischemia
  • Stress echocardiography
  • Non-invasive monitoring of hemodynamic changes during dobutamine stress echocardiographic testing using impedance cardiography (ICG)
  • Gated myocardial perfusion SPECT for diagnosis and prognosis of patients with coronary artery disease
  • Exercise testing in congestive heart failure patients
  • Should we use emotional stress testing to identify ischemia?