Long Term Outcomes in Stress Echocardiography: Ten Year Follow up of a Cohort in a Single Centre

Abstract

Background: The high service burden for acute admissions and referrals via rapid access chest pain clinics for evaluation of possible coronary artery disease means that many patients are now undergoing an investigation such as stress echocardiography as part of their evaluation. We aimed to see if the reassurance provided by negative stress echocardiography correlates with long-term event free survival.