American Society of Echoca rdiography Recommendations for Performance, Interpretation, and Application of Stress Echocardiography, JASE, September 2007
Advances since the 1998 publication of the Recommendations for Performance and Interpretation of Stress Echocardiography include improvements in imaging equipment, refinements in stress testing protocols and standards for image interpretation,and important progress toward quantitative analysis. Moreover, the roles of stress echocardiography for cardiac risk stratification and for assessment of myocardial viability are now well documented. (09/07)