Stress echocardiogram

The echocardiogram is a safe, painless and affordable test that uses ultrasound (ultrasound) techniques to produce, in real time, images of the heart. In the stress echocardiogram, this technique is used to assess the response to situations that involve an increase in the work of the heart (stress). As stress techniques you can use physical exercise (exercise echocardiogram or stress echocardiogram) or, different drugs that modify the contraction of the heart and heart rate (pharmacological stress echocardiogram) can be administered.