Cardiac Stress Testing & Imaging

Book excerpt: A clinician's guide for developing the optimal, most cost-effective strategies for diagnosing patients with suspected coronary heart disease. The book emphasizes stress testing combined with imaging, a key approach in patient evaluation. Covers all techniques now used, keeping cardiologists up to date on recent major advances in stress testing and stress imaging Answers clinical questions on the best ways to stress test patients with widely varying cardiac conditions Offers low cost, appropriate technology approaches, in line with changing health care practices Organized by clinical condition and patient group, whereas most texts are technique oriented, allowing no comparison of approaches Presents frank reviews of advantages and disadvantages of each stress testing and imaging technique Makes use of numerous high-quality line drawings, photographic images (including 24 colour plates), graphs, and tables to illustrate and summarize the literature