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Frequency of hypertensive response to dobutamine stress and diminished diagnostic value in patients with end-stage renal disease awaiting renal transplant.

Waqas AftabAli MotabarRamdas G PaiPadmini Varadarajan
Published in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2020)
Hypertensive response to dobutamine stress is common in ESRD patients and is not a predictor of survival. Stress-induced segmental wall motion abnormalities occur nearly thrice as frequently with a hypertensive response, but this is a poor predictor of angiographically significant coronary artery disease and does not predict survival.
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