Who may benefit from having a Stress Echo done?

Dr. Kenna Ganayagam, why might you need a stress echo done? So there are lots of different types of tests available for people who are having chest pain and really a stress echo should be for people who were investigating for disease of the heart arteries and so stress echo is one of the key things that's been around for a very long time with really good data in terms of sensitivity and specificity for identifying heart disease so that's narrowing in the heart arteries and that's really the target of the stress echocardiogram is to look for evidence of narrowing and that's not just minor narrowings but hopefully it should identify whether it's a significant enough narrowing that's causing you a problem.