Exercise echocardiographic findings and outcome of patients referred for evaluation of dyspnea

The purpose of this study was to characterize the outcome of patients referred for exercise echocardiographic evaluation of dyspnea. Little information exists regarding outcome of patients with dyspnea. We identified 443 patients with unexplained dyspnea, 2,033 with chest pain, and 587 with both symptoms referred for exercise echocardiography. Compared to those with chest pain alone, patients referred for dyspnea alone were older, predominately...