“It can be tricky because women don’t always have the ... In some cases, this may be followed by a stress echocardiogram, or ...

Dr. Mieres: The best test, whether you are doing imaging or not, is with exercise. For women who are incapable of doing exercise and you decide to do stress echo, dobutamine is most commonly used ...

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 ...