From: The clinical use of stress echocardiography in ischemic heart disease
Diagnosis of CAD in patients in whom exercise ECG is contraindicated, not feasible, uninterpretable, non-diagnostic or gives ambiguous results |
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Risk stratification in patients with established diagnosis |
Pre-operative risk assessment (high-risk non emergent, poor exercise tolerance) |
Evaluation after revascularization (not in the early post-procedure period, with change in symptoms) |
Search for viability in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy eligible for revascularization |
Coronary artery disease of unclear significance at angiography or computed tomography |