How reliable is an exercise stress echo in the diagnosis of exercise-induced heart failure with preserved ejection fraction?

Topics: Cardiology • Cardiovascular Imaging • Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant

Do you have a specific protocol you follow during the stress echo, and if so, what echo parameters are you using to evaluate for exercised-induced heart failure?

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This is my understanding of HFpEF. It is a clinical diagnosis of exertional Dyspnea in patients with risk factors such as HTN, atherosclerosis and Hyperlipidemia, increased BMI, and inactivity. A new classification means stage A only risk factors, stage B has some organ dysfunction such as LVH, le...

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at University of Nebraska Medical Center
In general, I prefer RHC with exercise test over s...

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