The clinical impact of contemporary stress echocardiography in morbid obesity for the assessment of coronary artery disease

Benoy N Shah; Konstantinos Zacharias; Jatinder S Pabla; Nikolaos Karogiannis; Francesca Calicchio; Gothandaraman Balaji; Abdalla Alhajiri; Ihab S Ramzy; Ahmed Elghamaz; Sothinathan Gurunathan; Rajdeep S Khattar; Roxy Senior

doi:10.1136/heartjnl-2015-308796

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Coronary artery disease

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The clinical impact of contemporary stress echocardiography in morbid obesity for the assessment of coronary artery disease

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Benoy N Shah Department of Echocardiography, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, UK Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Konstantinos Zacharias Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jatinder S Pabla Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Nikolaos Karogiannis Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Francesca Calicchio Department of Echocardiography, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Gothandaraman Balaji Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Abdalla Alhajiri Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ihab S Ramzy Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ahmed Elghamaz Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Sothinathan Gurunathan Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Rajdeep S Khattar Department of Echocardiography, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Roxy Senior Department of Echocardiography, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, UK Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles

Correspondence to Professor Roxy Senior, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NP, UK; roxysenior{at}cardiac-research.org

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Shah BN, Zacharias K, Pabla JS, et al

The clinical impact of contemporary stress echocardiography in morbid obesity for the assessment of coronary artery disease

Heart 2016;102:370-375.

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Received October 5, 2015
Revised November 12, 2015
Accepted December 5, 2015
First published January 6, 2016.

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October 25, 2017

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