In some cases, this may be followed by a stress echocardiogram, or “stress test,” to determine how the heart responds to ...

Stress testing may be done for several reasons, but the most common is to determine whether there are blockages in the ...

And cardiac MRI "shows us more than echocardiography or an exercise stress test," Steiner adds. "Those tests have benefits, but MRI shows more in terms of the heart's shape, size, volume ...

The sensitivity can also be improved by examining the heart’s wall movement through echocardiography. In other cases, a more limited stress test is done to determine the safety of exercise.