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- What is the Significance of a Borderline Stress Test and What Is The . . .
For example, in 35 year old males without chest pain the likelihood of any significantly blocked coronary artery is very low This means that the vast majority of positive or borderline tests in this group are false positives, meaning the test is abnormal but there is no disease
- What Happens If You Fail a Stress Test or Get Abnormal Result? - Healthline
Failing a stress test means you cannot reach or sustain the target heart rate during the exercise portion of the test This may be due to physical limitations, such as joint pain, breathing
- ACC AHA Guidelines for Exercise Testing: Executive Summary
Patients likely to exercise submaximally should undergo pharmacological stress testing Concern about false-positive ST-segment responses may be addressed by careful assessment of post-test probability and selective use of stress imaging tests before proceeding to angiography
- Heart Stress Test Results: What They Mean | Types of Stress Tests
Positive or abnormal: Doctors may conclude the stress test is positive for cardiac ischemia—meaning the heart muscle wasn’t getting adequate oxygenated blood during the stress There are certain ECG and imaging changes that would support this conclusion
- When “Positive” Turns Out To Be Negative - Gregory Koshkarian, MD, FACC
For a stress echocardiogram, the false positive rate is about 10-20%—so, for every 10 tests that come back abnormal, 1 or 2 of those patients don’t actually have a significant coronary blockage There are several reasons for this
- border line positive stress test | Dr. S. Venkatesan MD
What is borderline for one doctor may indeed be true positive for the other and vice versa How will be the EST in a revascularised or medically treated CAD ? If revascularization is a complete success , stress test would revert back to normal or it can be a borderline as we have just mentioned
- False-positive Stress Echocardiography: Not as Simple as It Looks
Traditionally, patients with false-positive stress echocardiography have been treated as if they had no significant coronary artery disease risk False-positive stress echocardiography is considered benign, and patients with false-positive tests are usually dismissed from the care of cardiologists
- Interpreting Stress Test Results: What Do They Mean? - DarwynHealth
Why can stress test results sometimes be false positive or false negative? Stress test results can be false positive if they suggest a heart condition that is not actually present They can be false negative if they fail to detect an underlying heart condition
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