“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 ...

[2,23] During a cardiac MRI stress test, left ventricular contractility ... or the patient has received the maximum amount of pharmacologic stress, infusions are discontinued and the patient ...

the exercise stress test is converted to a pharmacologic stress test. A medication, such as dobutamine, is given to make the heart beat faster and stronger until the adequate workload is achieved.

The spectrum of noninvasive cardiac ... 6 months of the stress test. Twenty-four of these 75 underwent exercise treadmill testing; the rest had adenosine or dipyridamole pharmacologic tests.

I am an 81-year-old man (5 feet, 2 inches tall at 122 pounds) in good health, except that I have Type 2 diabetes. My A1C level has been in the range of 6.3% to 6.8% for the past five years with the ...

the exercise stress test is converted to a pharmacologic stress test. A medication, such as dobutamine, is given to make the heart beat faster and stronger until the adequate workload is achieved.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I had a comment about your recent column on nuclear stress tests. As an 87-year-old person who has experienced atrial fibrillation and a mild stroke, I have had two nuclear stress ...