Stress Echocardiography: Principles of Ischemia Evaluation and Clinical Cases

Speaker: Vesna Mihajlovic, M.D., FRCPC
Cardiology, PGY. Echocardiography Fellow, St. Michael's Hospital
University of Toronto
Date: May 19, 2022
Objectives:
1) Review the indications, contra-indications, safety, and diagnostic accuracy of stress echo
2) Review the workflow in a typical exercise stress echo and dobutamine stress echo
3) Review the principles of regional wall motion scoring
4) Review the prognostic implications of a normal and abnormal stress echo, and high-risk features
5) Discuss the etiologies of false positive and false negative stress echo and the prognosis of a false positive stress echo
6) Describe the use of stress echo in the perioperative setting
7) Describe the role of stress echo in the post-ISCHEMIA trial era
8) Go over illustrative cases
Reference:
1. Guidelines for Performance, Interpretation, and Application of Stress Echocardiography in Ischemic Heart Disease: From the American Society of Echocardiography
J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2020 Jan;33(1):1-41.e8.
doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2019.07.001