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Stress testing in cardiology has significantly increased the diagnostic usefulness of the ECG as well as that of invasive evaluation of left ventricular function [1, 2]. Echocardiography has also been shown to yield valuable additional information about left ventricular function with various pharmacological interventions [3, 4] and physical exertion [7]. However, there seems to be no reliable method of echocardiographic stress testing, although its possible effectiveness has been anticipated [6] and shown [7]. Therefore, we attempted to develop a method that allows us to impose stress upon the left ventricle during echocardiographic evaluation. It should be easily controlled, standardized, sufficiently effective to challenge cardiac reserve and suitable for combined use with echocardiography.
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Autenrieth, G., Angermann, C., Goss, F., Bolte, HD. (1980). Echocardiographic Evaluation of Left Ventricular Performance by Standardized Afterload Stress. In: Bleifeld, W., Effert, S., Hanrath, P., Mathey, D.G. (eds) Evaluation of Cardiac Function by Echocardiography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67626-0_7
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