Abnormal stress echocardiography results after coronary stenting

J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2001 Sep;14(9):948-50. doi: 10.1067/mje.2001.113365.

Abstract

In a patient with a recently placed stent, a stress echocardiogram clearly indicated ischemia in the territory of the stented vessel. Subsequent coronary angiography, undertaken because of presumed restenosis, showed the stented area to be widely patent. This prompted a review of stress echocardiograms performed in patients within 6 weeks of coronary stenting. Of 21 such cases, 3 additional patients were found to have false-positive results in the territory served by the stented vessel.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Angina, Unstable / diagnostic imaging
  • Catheterization / methods
  • Coronary Disease / diagnostic imaging*
  • Coronary Disease / physiopathology
  • Coronary Disease / therapy
  • Coronary Restenosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Echocardiography, Stress*
  • Exercise Test
  • False Positive Reactions
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Recurrence
  • Stents*
  • Thrombolytic Therapy
  • Treatment Failure