Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography

Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography is a diagnostic test used to evaluate how your heart functions under stress. It involves injecting a medication called dobutamine, which stimulates your heart to beat faster and harder, mimicking exercise. While this happens, an ultrasound (echocardiogram) creates images of your heart to assess its movement and blood flow. This test helps doctors identify areas of the heart with reduced blood supply or damaged muscle, often due to blockages in the coronary arteries. It is useful for diagnosing heart problems in people unable to exercise on a treadmill or other stress tests.