[Pharmacological and exercise stress echocardiography].

Stress echocardiography (SE) is a recently developed technique to detect coronary artery disease and myocardial ischemia, and in increasing importance because several advantages are offered over nuclear perfusion imaging. Particularly, it is well established in acute coronary syndrome, that impaired left ventricular function is not always an irreversible process, and the information obtained using SE is useful for evaluating myocardial viability. Additionally, a progress in computer technology permits us to quantitatively assess the regional myocardial function during ischemia induced. Then, we introduced the feasibility of the pharmacological and exercise stress echocardiography for detecting myocardial ischemia and viability in this report.