%0 Journal Article
%T Exercise stress testing in clinical practice
%A Francesco Giallauria
%A Alessandra Grieco
%A Angelo Russo
%A Luigi Maresca
%J Reviews in Health Care
%D 2011
%I SEEd
%R 10.7175/rhc.v2i3.30
%X Exercise stress testing is an important diagnostic tool for evaluating patient¡¯s cardiovascular performance. The present review describes the accuracy and the value of exercise stress testing in different settings: after an acute coronary event, after percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass graft; in patients risk assessment before non-cardiac surgery; in diabetic population; in patients with baseline electrocardiographic abnormalities. Moreover, this review provides insights relating to test accuracy in women and geriatric patients. Finally, this review explores new variables/parameters (dyspnea, chronotropic incompentence, heart rate recovery, functional capacity, integrated scores) that in the last few years added an incremental value to conventional analysis of exercise-induced angina or electrocardiographic changes.
%K Exercise stress testing
%K Acute coronary event
%K Percutaneous coronary intervention
%K Coronary artery bypass graft
%K Dyspnea
%K Chronotropic incompentence
%K Heart rate recovery
%K Functional capacity
%K Women
%K Elderly
%U http://journals.edizioniseed.it/index.php/rhc/article/view/30