A patient who, despite risk factors or comorbidities, can get on a treadmill faces low mortality risk. But the reverse is ...

“There is a pharmacological stress test, where we use medication to induce the heart response to exercise while the patient is seated in a chair that gives us the results we need.” Unlike ...

Rapid atrial pacing echocardiography is a safe test. It may be considered in a select group of elderly patients as an alternative to exercise or pharmacologic tests before resorting to coronary ...

[2] Physicians interpreting dobutamine MRI stress tests must review the MRI images ... or the patient has received the maximum amount of pharmacologic stress, infusions are discontinued and ...