ReviewEcho research and practice2016
Stress echocardiography in patients with morbid obesity.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Use of Ultrasound Contrast Agents in Stress Echocardiography: Three for the Price of One.CASE (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2025Article
- Clinical, Safety, and Engineering Perspectives on Wearable Ultrasound Technology: A Review.IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · 2024Review
- Point-of-Care Echocardiography in the Difficult-to-Image Patient in the ICU: A Narrative Review.Critical care explorations · 2024Review
- A Saudi Heart Association Position Statement on Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease.Journal of the Saudi Heart Association · 2024Article
- Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.Circulation · 2021Review
- The obesity paradox in the stress echo lab: fat is better for hearts with ischemia or coronary microvascular dysfunction.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2021Observational
- Anaesthetic Preparation of Obese Patients: Current Status on Optimal Work-up.Current obesity reports · 2017Review
- Feasibility of physiologist-led stress echocardiography for the assessment of coronary artery disease.Echo research and practice · 2017Article
- Echocardiographic assessment of myocardial ischemia.Annals of translational medicine · 2016Review
- Obesity and Anesthesia: Challenges in the Perioperative Period.Missouri medicineReview
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The incidence of significant obesity is rising across the globe. These patients often have a clustering of cardiovascular risk factors and are frequently referred for noninvasive cardiac imaging tests. Stress echocardiography (SE) is widely used for assessment of patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease (CAD), but its clinical utility in morbidly obese patients (in whom image quality may suffer due to body habitus) has been largely unknown. The recently published Stress Ultrasonography in Morbid Obesity (SUMO) study has shown that SE, when performed appropriately with ultrasound contrast agents (whether performed with physiological or pharmacological stress), has excellent feasibility and appropriately risk stratifies morbidly obese patients, including identification of patients who require revascularization. This article reviews the evidence supporting the use of echocardiographic techniques in morbidly obese patients for assessment of known or suspected CAD and briefly discusses other noninvasive modalities, including magnetic resonance and nuclear techniques, comparing and contrasting these techniques against SE.
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