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Practical guidance for the implementation of stress echocardiography
Exercise stress testing has been widely undertaken for the diagnosis of heart diseases. The accurate assessment of clinical conditions can be conducted by comparing the findings obtained from the results of stress echocardiography with the changes in the blood/heart rate and electrocardiograms. Nume...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6132937/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29876799 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12574-018-0382-8 |
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author | Suzuki, Kengo Hirano, Yutaka Yamada, Hirotsugu Murata, Mitsushige Daimon, Masao Takeuchi, Masaaki Seo, Yoshihiro Izumi, Chisato Akaishi, Makoto |
author_facet | Suzuki, Kengo Hirano, Yutaka Yamada, Hirotsugu Murata, Mitsushige Daimon, Masao Takeuchi, Masaaki Seo, Yoshihiro Izumi, Chisato Akaishi, Makoto |
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description | Exercise stress testing has been widely undertaken for the diagnosis of heart diseases. The accurate assessment of clinical conditions can be conducted by comparing the findings obtained from the results of stress echocardiography with the changes in the blood/heart rate and electrocardiograms. Numerous overseas studies have reported the utility of stress echocardiography in diagnosing myocardial ischemia; in Japan, the use of this modality for this purpose was included in the national health insurance reimbursable list in 2012. Nevertheless, stress echocardiography is far from being a widespread practice in Japan. This might be due to insufficient equipment (e.g., ergometers, space for test implementation) at each medical institution, shortage of technicians and sonographers who are well experienced and who are responsible for obtaining images during stress testing. The other possible reasons include the limited evidence available in Japan and the lack of a standardized testing protocol. Further dissemination of the practice of exercise stress echocardiography in this country is deemed necessary to establish satisfactory evidence for the use of stress echocardiography in the Japanese population. To this end, efforts are underway to develop a standardized protocol and report format to be adopted throughout Japan. We here present a guideline created by the Guideline Development Committee of the Japanese Society of Echocardiography that describes safe and effective stress echocardiography protocols and report formats. The readers are encouraged to perform exercise stress echocardiography using the proposed template for consensus document and report attached to this guideline. |
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spelling | pubmed-61329372018-09-13 Practical guidance for the implementation of stress echocardiography Suzuki, Kengo Hirano, Yutaka Yamada, Hirotsugu Murata, Mitsushige Daimon, Masao Takeuchi, Masaaki Seo, Yoshihiro Izumi, Chisato Akaishi, Makoto J Echocardiogr Special Article Exercise stress testing has been widely undertaken for the diagnosis of heart diseases. The accurate assessment of clinical conditions can be conducted by comparing the findings obtained from the results of stress echocardiography with the changes in the blood/heart rate and electrocardiograms. Numerous overseas studies have reported the utility of stress echocardiography in diagnosing myocardial ischemia; in Japan, the use of this modality for this purpose was included in the national health insurance reimbursable list in 2012. Nevertheless, stress echocardiography is far from being a widespread practice in Japan. This might be due to insufficient equipment (e.g., ergometers, space for test implementation) at each medical institution, shortage of technicians and sonographers who are well experienced and who are responsible for obtaining images during stress testing. The other possible reasons include the limited evidence available in Japan and the lack of a standardized testing protocol. Further dissemination of the practice of exercise stress echocardiography in this country is deemed necessary to establish satisfactory evidence for the use of stress echocardiography in the Japanese population. To this end, efforts are underway to develop a standardized protocol and report format to be adopted throughout Japan. We here present a guideline created by the Guideline Development Committee of the Japanese Society of Echocardiography that describes safe and effective stress echocardiography protocols and report formats. The readers are encouraged to perform exercise stress echocardiography using the proposed template for consensus document and report attached to this guideline. Springer Japan 2018-06-06 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6132937/ /pubmed/29876799 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12574-018-0382-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Special Article Suzuki, Kengo Hirano, Yutaka Yamada, Hirotsugu Murata, Mitsushige Daimon, Masao Takeuchi, Masaaki Seo, Yoshihiro Izumi, Chisato Akaishi, Makoto Practical guidance for the implementation of stress echocardiography |
title | Practical guidance for the implementation of stress echocardiography |
title_full | Practical guidance for the implementation of stress echocardiography |
title_fullStr | Practical guidance for the implementation of stress echocardiography |
title_full_unstemmed | Practical guidance for the implementation of stress echocardiography |
title_short | Practical guidance for the implementation of stress echocardiography |
title_sort | practical guidance for the implementation of stress echocardiography |
topic | Special Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6132937/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29876799 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12574-018-0382-8 |
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