Peter Ermis
Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.12, No.5, pp. 624-626, 2017, DOI:10.1111/chd.12495
Abstract Currently, the role of stress echocardiography primarily resides in diagnosing acquired coronary
artery disease (CAD) in adults. Besides an increasing concern for traditional CAD in young patients
due to obesity and other chronic pediatric diseases, there is also a growing population of adolescents and young adults with “at risk” coronary arteries due to: reimplanted coronaries in
congenital heart disease, anomalous origin of the native coronary arteries, coronary abnormalities
in Kawasaki’s disease, and posttransplant coronary vasculopathy. Stress echocardiography is well
suited for routine screening and monitoring in these patients. Also, due to the ability of stress
echocardiography to provide real-time cardiac… More >
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