Exercise echocardiographic findings and outcome of patients referred for evaluation of dyspnea
Sébastien Bergeron, MD*,
Steve R. Ommen, MD*,
Kent R. Bailey, PhD ,
Jae K. Oh, MD*,
Robert B. McCully, MD* and
Patricia A. Pellikka, MD*,*
* Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Department of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

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Figure 1 Survival among patients referred for dyspnea, with or without chest pain, was significantly worse than that of patients referred for evaluation of chest pain.
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Figure 2 Cardiac event-free survival among patients referred for dyspnea, with or without chest pain, was significantly worse than that of patients referred for evaluation of chest pain.
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