Technologist Track Session 3: Ischemic Heart Disease (2019)-Treadmill Stress CMR

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The speaker explains why stress imaging is important for diagnosing chest pain, using a case of a young woman whose exertional symptoms were clarified by exercise testing. They compare exercise versus pharmacologic stress, emphasizing that exercise better reproduces symptoms, reveals rhythm and blood pressure responses, and provides functional capacity data. The talk reviews guidelines favoring exercise when feasible, then describes treadmill cardiac MRI techniques, including MR-compatible systems and workflow. Studies showed treadmill stress CMR performs well compared with SPECT and may reduce downstream costs. Overall, exercise stress CMR is presented as accurate, practical, and cost-competitive.

Keywords

stress imaging

chest pain diagnosis

exercise stress testing

treadmill cardiac MRI

exercise stress CMR