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Prognostic value of exercise echocardiography in 2,632 patients 65 years of age

^a Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

View larger version (18K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Survival free of cardiac events: effect of exercise LVESV response. An increase or lack of decrease in LVESV with exercise was associated with more cardiac events. LVESV = left ventricular end-systolic volume.

View larger version (19K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Survival free of cardiac events: effect of exercise WMSI. More events were observed with a higher exercise WMSI. WMSI = wall motion score index.

View larger version (27K): [in a new window]   Figure 3 Incremental value of exercise electrocardiography and exercise echocardiography (Echo) in predicting cardiac events (left) and cardiac death (right). The addition of exercise ECG variables to the clinical and rest echocardiographic models significantly improved the models. The addition of exercise echocardiographic variables further improved both models.