Maximum Treadmill Exercise Test in Patients with Abnormal Control Electrocardiograms

Maximum treadmill exercise test in patients with abnormal control electrocardiograms.

Maximum treadmill exercise electrocardiography in female patients.

Exercise testing has become standardized for the diagnostic and functional evaluation of male patients but little data is available regarding its specificity and sensitivity in the female. Therefore, maximum treadmill exercise (Bruce protocol) was performed on 98 consecutive females and compared to coronary arteriography. Using 50% obstruction as indicating coronary artery disease and 1 mm ST-s...

Clinical value and severity of myocardial perfusion defects in asymptomatic diabetic patients with negative or weakly positive exercise treadmill test

Objective: Although coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in type 2 diabetic patients, it is frequently asymptomatic. Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) is reported to show ischemia in a significant number of asymptomatic diabetic patients. We studied the prevalence and severity of myocardial perfusion defects in asymptomatic diabetic patients and its clinical impact. Meth...

Postexercise electrocardiogram in patients with abnormal resting electrocardiograms.

One hundred and ten patients with chest pain syndromes and resting electrocardiograms demonstrating ST-T abnormalities and/or prior transmural myocardial infarctions were studied by means of the Master's two-step exercise test and selective coronary cine arteriography. Criteria for negativity were modified so that subjects with postexercise heart rates less than 110 beats/min, who did not devel...

Quantitative electrocardiographic measures and long-term mortality in exercise test patients with clinically normal resting electrocardiograms.

BACKGROUND Currently, the only function of the resting electrocardiogram (ECG) in patients referred for exercise testing is to determine whether imaging is mandated. It is unknown if subtle ECG findings in those patients with clinically normal resting ECGs have prognostic significance. METHODS We performed a single-center cohort study of 18,964 patients without known cardiovascular disease wh...