See Also: stress echocardiography(medicine)
Echocardiography, stress(health)
Sestamibi Exercise Stress Test (Sestamibi stress test, stress perfusion scan, stress Sestamibi)(health)
Thallium Exercise Stress Test (Stress thallium test, Perfusion scan)(health)
Echocardiography(medicine)
Echocardiography(health)
Metabolic Exercise Stress Test (also called metabolic stress test)(health)
duplex echocardiography(medicine)
B-mode echocardiography(medicine)
echocardiography, Doppler(medicine)

Echocardiography, stress (health)


A supplement to the routine exercise cardiac stress test. During stress echocardiography, the sound waves of ultrasound are used to produce images of the heart at rest and at the peak of exercise. In a heart with normal blood supply, all segments of the left ventricle (the major pumping chamber of the heart) exhibit enhanced contractions of the heart muscle during peak exercise. Conversely, in the setting of coronary artery disease (CAD), if a segment of the left ventricle does not receive optimal blood flow during exercise, that segment will demonstrate reduced contractions of heart muscle relative to the rest of the heart on the exercise echocardiogram.